"Play as the Joker" and "Prey in the Darkness" DLC tutorials! Now working on GOTY!

[VIKINGHAARD]

You can now use the "Play as the Joker" and "Prey in the Darkness" Challenge Map DLC with the Arkham Asylum GOTY v1.1

Special thanks to catspaw for his outstanding modding work and to Floobagop for researching and documenting the Mac version of the game.

Original thread: You CAN play as the Joker on PC!

With the release of Arkham Asylum GOTY with Steamworks, a lot of us were hoping that Rocksteady would take the time to provide us with the not-so-exclusive DLC that came with the Mac version, the PS3 version, and (partially) the Xbox 360 version. Yet again, we were left out. This would have been the perfect opportunity to show some love to the PC community, but alas, we were ignored. Some of us attempted to contact Rocksteady via e-mail, message, Facebook, and Twitter. Unfortunately, we were ignored.

Thankfully, a few dedicated modders have refused to give up. Thanks to the efforts originally by "Floobagop" and later by "catspaw," we now have the ability to play the complete version of Arkham Asylum on PC. This includes the "Play as the Joker" pack, which includes 8 challenge maps, and was released originally for PS3 and later for Mac. This also includes the "Prey in the Darkness" challenge maps that were released for EVERY OTHER PLATFORM besides PC. It sucks that the developers and publisher refuse to view the PC platform as equals, when in reality, the PC version of the game looks the best and received special treatment in the Physx department from NVIDIA and Rocksteady.

Anyway, the process of adding the DLC to you game involves acquiring some files that are exclusively found on the Mac version of the game. You can view Floobagop's original thread (You CAN play as the Joker on PC!) for detailed instruction on how to extract these files from a LEGAL Mac copy of the game. I will NOT share the files here, so don't ask. Find them yourselves.

The process mentioned in the thread above will allow you to use the DLC in the non-GOTY edition. Unfortunately, the GOTY has several packages of files that are modified from the non-GOTY edition, and Rocksteady intentionally disabled the configuration parameters that previously allowed this to work. A skilled modder called catspaw has dedicated several days of work to tracing down ways to enable the Joker content without the ability to do so in a configuration file. Once he discovered the solution to this, testing proved that several of the challenge map files that work with the non-GOTY edition would have to be modified so pointers that were included in the non-GOTY maps would now point to their new locations in the GOTY texture archives. Remarkably, catspaw figured all of this out on his own, and we owe him our gratitude.

These modified files can be found here.[mega.co.nz] They should be placed in the following locations in your installation directory:

• Combat_Cave_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Combat_Cell_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Combat_Garden_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Combat_Max_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Predator_Admin_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Predator_Cave_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Predator_Max_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Predator_Med_Joker.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Challenge\
  
• Death_Batman.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Frontend\Death\
  
• Death_Cash.umap -->BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\Frontend\Death\

Finally, the EXE has to be modified using a HEX editor to internally set the Joker content flags to "enabled." Edit ShippingPC-BmGame.exe:

• Go to offset 12153c6
  
• Change the contents to 0D 00 00 08 00 89 86 80 06 00 00
  
• Save the file.

Again, I will not supply any files besides the modded .umap files above. If you want them, you will need to purchase a legal copy of the game on Mac and extract them yourselves.

Enjoy playing the DLC on Steam, and shame on Rocksteady for making us resort to this!

[Laptop]

Rocksteady are focused on Arkham Knight at the moment, but I will query them about why this DLC never made it to the Windows version and if it can be possibly added in officially.

[Dr. Cheis]

Good luck with that. =\

[Zaxx]

Автор сообщения: Laptop65

Rocksteady are focused on Arkham Knight at the moment, but I will query them about why this DLC never made it to the Windows version and if it can be possibly added in officially.

Would be cool but in the meantime, guys: the DLC is available on numerous torrent sites in a format that is ready to install. No cracks are included as far as I can remember so you still need a legit copy of the game to work with it of course but "ready to install" means that yep, the DLC's files are there. Keep that in mind if you don't have a legit copy of the Mac version and don't fall for viruses.

Anyway if WB / Rocksteady is interested in finally bringing this content to the PC version I have all the files that are needed to basically copy and paste all the Joker content into the current Steam GOTY version of AA. Guess it would save some work (also the torrent may not be available now, it's old stuff) so if needed I can upload the stuff somewhere safe and share it with the devs. It would be a cool way to get Arkham fans occupied while Arkham Knight gets its much needed fine-tuning.

[excelatrate]

Автор сообщения: Dr. Cheis

No need to be condencending. Pointing out that the download link is dead is perfectly valid. It means somebody needs to find a new download link for those of us who haven't already made use of it.

It's a pretty decent resource. Would be a shame if it disapeared.

The non dead link is in the comments. [You're all welcome]

[Joszii']

Awesome!

[pelucatron]

Can I still earn achievements in Story Mode if I mod my game to run these DLCs?

[Dr. Cheis]

I think so, but I had all the achievements before I did this so I can't be certain.

[VIKINGHAARD]

The reason we posted the lengthy stuff (rather than just files) is so we weren't condoning anything illegal. It's a mod you can do yourself, using files that you can aquire or modify on your own.

[VIKINGHAARD]

In addition, the older non-GOTY required no hex editing. It seems as though Rocksteady intentionally disabled a flag in the executable when they released the Steamworks enabled version.

[Black Drazon]

I'm trying to run the Joker DLC and get a runtime error every time I try to run "Paging Dr. Joker" (the first predator map). Everything else seems to be working. I've tried reinstalling the mod. Thoughts?

[Aidan]

heads up - PCGaming WIki have updated instructions on hoow to get this working. someone made an executable that does it all for you without the need to do any hex editing, or even own the osx version.

[stickyman]

Автор сообщения: Aidan

heads up - PCGaming WIki have updated instructions on hoow to get this working. someone made an executable that does it all for you without the need to do any hex editing, or even own the osx version.

thanks!

[Griffith did nothing wrong]

It seems all download links are leading to an error that says it was removed.

[JonoAMano]

If some download links are outdated, try these:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_Asylum#Ex-exclusive_PS3_DLCs
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/511-batman-arkham-asylum-goty-steam-dlc-from-ps3/

[Griffith did nothing wrong]

Автор сообщения: JonoAMano

If some download links are outdated, try these:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Batman:_Arkham_Asylum#Ex-exclusive_PS3_DLCs
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/511-batman-arkham-asylum-goty-steam-dlc-from-ps3/

Thanks boo