Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition Guide

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Overview

Quick and dirty method to get past the Launcher for Big Picture Mode goodness.

Introduction

This guide has been rushed together to provide a method to run Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY edition from Big Picture Mode that bypasses the launcher.

If you are running Big Picture Mode and are controller based, you may find the following appears when launching the game:

This responds to mouse interaction alone rather than a controller, which is somewhat frustrating if you have no immediate access to a mouse.

Guide

Disclaimer: I’m providing the following information “as is” from good intentions and take no responsability if you accidently break something.

Browse to the following directory:

[Path_To_Steam]SteamSteamAppscommonBatman Arkham Asylum GOTYBinaries

You should see the following 3 executables:

BmStartApp.exe BmLauncher.exe ShippingPC-BmGame.exe

Open an Administrative command prompt to this directory.

Run the following:

ren BmStartApp.exe aBmStartApp.exe ren BmLauncher.exe aBmLauncher.exe mklink BmStartApp.exe ShippingPC-BmGame.exe mklink BmLauncher.exe ShippingPC-BmGame.exe

And you’re done!

Next time Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY is launched via Steam Big Picture Mode, it should go straight into the game:

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