Tutorial: Installing Mods

The console version of this game received some cool exclusive DLC characters.
Today I'm going to show you, how to install them into the steam version.

Information Overview

This guide will show you a very simple way to install any kind of a mod into your game.
I'm using my SSD disk for modding, since these mods require fast disk reading speed.
You can use normal HDD as well. If your disk reading speed is slow: Lags will happen.
Lags can cause desync in cutscenes or overall slow loading times and or slowmotion.
Most computers in todays day and age won't experience any of those issues: Hurray.
The LEGO Games from Traveller's Tales are all using basically the very same engine.
And that means one simple thing: You can put mods into all of them with a simple trick.
We can thank the guys behind the QuickBMS tool and the .DAT files extractor for that.
If you have some mods of your own, you can post them in the comments of this guide.
I'm sure that there's a lot of fans around here who would love to see some new mods.
I will be showing you how to install a cool mod from a guy named 'Tiny Tsu Sandwich'.
The mod is called 'LEGO Batman 2 DLC Mod' and it simply adds the DLC characters.
All of those characters we're exclusive for the console players only. But not Anymore.
Now you can enjoy them in the steam release as well and that's worth it in my opinion.

Here's the list of characters that you will receive if you follow the instructions:

Damian Wayne (Batman's Son)	Captain Cold	Black Manta	Zatanna	Bizarro
Nightwing (The Previous Robin)	Gorilla Grodd	Black Adam	Shazam	Katana

Step 1: Preparation

1.Crate a backup of your entire game folder. It's always better to have the backup.
The game folder is here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LEGO Batman 2
2.Download the QuickBMS and the TTGames Script from their official page.
The link to their official page is: http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm (Version 0.9.2) or this:
The link for the backup website: http://aluigi.zenhax.com/quickbms.htm (Version 0.9.2) or this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190127023959/https://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip
3.Put the downloaded stuff into a new folder and then open the quickbms.exe
After it's opened, it will want a BMS script from you, just select the ttgames.bms

Step 2: Extraction

1.After you have inserted the ttgames.bms, It will now want the archive, select this one:
The file called GAME.DAT in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Lego Batman 2
2.Now it will ask you to select the output folder. Extract it directly into your game folder.
The game folder is again at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Lego Batman 2
3.Wait until it's finished and then repeat the same process for the remaining three files.
It's the GAME0.DAT, GAME1.DAT and the GAME2.DAT, you have to extract them all.
4.If you see the error messege from the picture below, then follow these instructions:
It's simple, just press the "A" key on your keyboard and then press the "ENTER" key.
5.Delete all of the following files from your game folder in order to proceed:
Now delete those .dat files from the main game directory as well as the __DISC__ file.
6.You also need to delete the CHARTXT.FPK file from the CHARS folder, so do it.
After you deleted it: You can go ahead and download the mod that you want to use.

Step 3: Modding

1.Now you just need to download the 'LEGO Batman 2 DLC Mod' from the following website:
Download simply here: https://modworkshop.net/mod/4?tab=downloads
2.Open the downloaded archive and extract the new files into your main game folder.
Just put the files from the chars folder into your chars folder and that is literally everything.
3.Everything should be now done and you should now finally try to play your game.
The dlc characters will be available at the bottom of the character selection screen, like this:

Thanks For Reading

If you run into some kind of a problem, perhaps you did forgot to extract all of the .dat files.
Or perhaps you have forgotten to delete all of the mentioned files: Please, double-check it.
If you've done everything correctly and still having a problem: Go ahead and post a comment.
I will try to help you out if I can. And others can do so as well. This guide is for troubleshooting.
If someone decides to update this mod or provide a different mod: I will inform you in this guide.
You can also post some mods of your own in the comments below, maybe I will put them in too.
Since the developers didn't bother to give us those DLCs: We can at least mod them instead.
There's a small friendly community of LEGO modders available at https://discord.gg/XbbyfCP

[supermario24674]

I tried it but I was stuck on the extraction part.

[Duscara]

I found out that I needed to run it as admin, but I can't find the chars folder.

[Wally]

Worked perfectly, thanks!

[GaybitBiscuit]

Here's yet another alternative way to obtain QuickBMS 0.9.2
https://web.archive.org/web/20190127023959/https://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip

[best yone eune]

my game crashes when it starts, I did everything

[JDMasterZ]

Okay I got it now! I had to put the collection.txt file into the CHARS folder and replace the COLLECTION.txt that was already there

[JDMasterZ]

Okay I did that, so why isn't it working :(

[GaybitBiscuit]

The content of CHARS folder goes into the CHARS folder

[JDMasterZ]

Or is it that I put the 'chars' folder from the DLC pack into the CHARS game folder. Is that correct, or should I have put it in the main game folder next to CHARS?

[JDMasterZ]

I did delete all the files. Should I delete them from my Recycling bin too? Or should I delete the copy of the game I made. Is that affecting it?