The game comes built: the installer only needs your own Burnout Revenge disc image (the European or the American release, see SETUP.md).
Windows: download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-win-amd64.exe and run it.
Linux: download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImage, then
chmod +x Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImage
./Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImageRun the installer again over an installed copy to update it; your settings are kept.
Android (arm64, Adreno or Mali): install Burnout_Revenge-android-arm64.apk. It opens as the installer: pick your disc image. A Mesa Turnip driver .zip is optional, for Adreno phones whose own driver misbehaves. This release is signed with a fixed key: uninstall an earlier build once, and later ones install over it, keeping your saves.
macOS (Apple silicon): download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-macos-arm64.zip, unzip it and run the app inside. It puts Burnout Revenge.app in ~/Applications, so the game starts from Launchpad or Spotlight. The app is signed ad hoc, so macOS stops it the first time it is opened after a download; allow it under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Open Anyway. The installed game logs to ~/Library/Logs/xerenge-burnout/.
Russian (a mod): unzip Xerenge-mod-locale_rus.zip into the installed game's game/mods/ and choose RUSSIAN in Driver Details > Settings > LANGUAGE. Its fonts are made at the first start from your own copy of the game; see MODDING.md to translate further or make a mod of your own.
Online play works out of the box - the installer points at the server (94639.snk.wtf), where everyone plays together; there is nothing to set up. An install from before the server is moved to it when the installer runs over it.
What's new in 0.4.9:
- Wide screens: on a screen wider than 16:9 the race HUD goes to the screen's edges, the crash border and flashes cover the whole frame, and the menus' background videos fill the width (
menu_video= zoom, stretch or box inxerenge.conf). Keep 16:9 turns it off. By GOATS2K (GitHub #53). - Your own music: Driver Details > Song Manager, LT switches EA Trax for the songs of a
musicfolder beside the game (MP3 and WMA, names from their tags), RT sets their order. The folder is read again each time EA Trax is opened. - Mods: translations into languages the game was never released in, with fonts of their own - see
MODDING.md. The installer makesgame/mods; the Russian mod comes with the release. - Saves from Xenia and from a console: a Xenia profile folder put beside the game's saves, or a save package in
import/, is taken in at the first start (GitHub #46). - Button icons: Driver Details > Settings > BUTTON ICONS - XBOX (the game's own) or PLAYSTATION.
- Achievements: a notice as one is earned, and the full list under Player File > Stats.
- Online: players on the internet reach each other through their routers (NAT traversal, GitHub #49); quick match finds only games of the kind asked for, Ranked or Player Match (GitHub #35).
- Phones with a Mali GPU: textures are re-encoded for the GPU on all cores, and the first start prepares them in the background, so tracks and menus load without stalls (GitHub #32).
- Portable: a box in the installer keeps the saves, caches and logs in the game's folder (GitHub #42).
- Linux: runs natively on Wayland in a Wayland session.
- Smoother starts: shader pipelines are made ahead and the driver's compiled ones kept between runs.
- Installer: says why a copy failed and what to do (the game running, Program Files, Controlled folder access), and checks the folder before the long steps (GitHub #59, #65).
- B on the main menu asks whether to quit the game.