Batman Begins Recomp v1.0.0

The first release of the unofficial native Windows port of Batman Begins for the original Xbox.

How to play

1. Download BatmanBegins.zip below and extract it anywhere.
2. Put your ISO of the US release in the assets folder. The files extracted from the disc work too.
3. Run BatmanBegins.exe.

The first start builds the game's code from your copy, behind a small progress window. It happens only once: about 20 seconds on the test PC, a few minutes on a PC with fewer cores. When it says The game is ready, press Start.

Note

This download contains no game code or assets. You need your own legally acquired copy of the game.

What's in it

• The whole campaign, playable to the credits.
• An options screen (Esc, or Back + Start on a controller): display mode, window size, internal resolution up to 4x, 16:9 or 4:3, anisotropic filtering, vsync and frame rate.
• Keyboard rebinding, controllers through SDL3, and hold A (or Space) for one second to skip a video.
• Saves, settings and logs kept next to the program.

Known issues

• 60 FPS is experimental. Some scenes run too fast, such as the helicopter's flight. 30, the game's own rate, is the default.
• At 30 FPS the campaign has only been played up to the second chapter; the rest of the playthrough was at 60.
• The first time each effect appears, the game may stall for a moment while it compiles its shaders. They are kept on disk after that.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), a Direct3D 12 GPU, and a CPU with SSE4.2 and POPCNT.

BatmanBegins.zip SHA-256: 5763e3dfee86695d694b9dc995f212f592e0a7dc592f71c3ae5a81d78d499327