Burnout Dominator Reversed (Burnout Dominator PC port)

Burnout Dominator, EA UK’s 2007 entry in the Burnout series published by Electronic Arts, came out on the PlayStation 2 and PSP and never on PC. literalynn created the repository on 6 October 2026 and had pushed about 150 commits by 19 October, with no releases or tags. The repository had 9 GitHub stars on 22 October. We couldn’t find press coverage of the port.

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What it is

• A static recompilation: PS2Recomp translates the code of the PS2’s main CPU (the Emotion Engine) into C++, 51,161 generated files compiled into the executable.
• Compiled vector programs: the microprograms of the PS2’s two vector units, which transform and light every vertex, are compiled ahead of time into C++ as well, with an interpreter for the rest.
• GPU graphics: the PS2 graphics chip is drawn by paraLLEl-GS on your graphics card through Vulkan, which also renders at higher resolutions.
• Still emulated: the I/O processor running the game’s own modules, the sound chip, the video decoder, DMA and timers.
• Built with AI help: a few commits are co-authored by Claude, per the repository’s contributor list.

The README says nothing in the game is skipped or faked: system library functions are replaced by native code only where their identity is proven. The game runs on three threads: game code with the I/O processor, vector programs with the graphics interfaces, and submission to the GPU. It works like the other console recompilations in our recompiled games list.

Current status

What works, per the README’s status table:

• boot, intro videos, menus, World Tour, car select, events and results;
• races with cars, traffic, damage, crashes and Impact Time, reflections and the HUD;
• the memory card (your profile is saved after every event), plus save states on F5 and F7;
• Xbox, PlayStation and other SDL controllers with vibration, and keyboard and mouse;
• up to 4x resolution (2560 pixels wide) with supersampling, FXAA and 16:9;
• music, engines, crashes and menu sound;
• 60 fps in six-car races, and a keep_speed option that runs extra simulation steps instead of slowing the race when frames come late.

Known problems: the README lists the sound chip’s reverb as missing. The repository had no open issues on 22 October 2026, so there are few public reports from other players yet. We didn’t play the game through ourselves.

The README also lists bugs fixed on the way, which explain what playing it looked like before: every square root in the game was wrong, which squashed car bodies flat; a register mix-up loaded the wrong track sections; and the first race drew one frame per second with corrupted textures before paraLLEl-GS and compiled vector programs brought it to 60.

What you need

• Your own European PS2 disc image of Burnout Dominator (SLES-54627). The installer checks it, and the game reads it every time it starts, so leave the ISO in place. Other versions are not supported. We don’t explain how to obtain or copy game data.
• About 20 GB of free space.
• Windows: Visual Studio 2026 or 2022 Community with Desktop development with C++, plus Python 3.12, Git and PowerShell (the README installs them with winget).
• Linux: the compiler, CMake, Ninja, X11, ALSA and FFmpeg development packages listed in the README.
• A Vulkan graphics card; a dedicated one for 2x and 4x resolution.
• A CPU with fast single cores; four threads are enough.

How to install

From the official README, at a high level. On Windows, clone the repository, drop your ISO onto Installer.bat (30 to 90 minutes the first time), then start the game with Play.bat. On Linux, run the install script with the path to your ISO, then the run command. To update, pull the repository and run the installer again.

Controls and settings

Every key can be changed in the F1 menu, which pauses the game and also holds volume, resolution, anti-aliasing and aspect ratio. F11 or Alt+Enter switches to full screen, F5 and F7 save and load a state, and F9 marks a glitch for a bug report. Settings live in settings.ini next to Play.bat, including 50 or 60 Hz, progressive scan, fast loading screens and the stick dead zone.

Is it legal and safe?

• Burnout Dominator Reversed is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts, Criterion Games or Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• The README says game files and the code derived from them are never committed and stay on your machine; the repository holds only the project’s own code, tools and documentation.
• Use only a disc you own.
• Get it only from the official GitHub repository. Sites offering the port bundled with the game are not the project.

More Burnout on PC: Burnout 3: Takedown (an Xbox recompilation, Takedawn), and Burnout Revenge through the Xbox 360 recomp Xerenge in our recompiled games list. Other EA games made native: BLACK, Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

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