When Rocksteady’s masterpiece, Batman: Arkham City , first landed on the Nintendo Switch as part of the Batman: Arkham Trilogy package in late 2023, fans celebrated. Finally, the dark, sprawling streets of Arkham City were portable. However, like many modern Switch releases, the journey to get the “full” experience has been riddled with questions about patches, file sizes, and the controversial world of “NSP” dumps.

: These are manual game files used for installation. Tools like Tinfoil or DBI can be used with a flash drive and OTG adapter to add these files to a Switch console.

: For those using manual installation methods (NSP files), note that the base "stub" for the game can be tiny (around 8 MB), with the actual game content delivered via a massive 12.3 GB update file .

Recent patches (specifically for the trilogy bundle) have added performance and visual improvements for users playing on Nintendo Switch 2 via backwards compatibility.