what do you do w/ file w/ .bin extension?

[Bronxkid]

I'm curious how you open a file w/ this extension. Is there a .cue file needed?

 

[Maleficus]

burn it to a CD with the accompanying cue file.

 

[Bronxkid]

What happens if I don't have a cue file? Is the bin useless? Thanks.

 

[ugh]

I'm not sure whether this will help. You can try downloading ISOBuster to open up the .bin file and have a look of the contents. You can try burning the .bin file with Nero and see if it'll work w/o the .cue file.

 

[Moonbender]

Unless the track format is complex (mixed-mode or audio cd), letting Nero "guess" the settings by burning without a cue is usually fine.

 

[bigrash]

You can always make a .cue file. It's pretty easy cause there's not really much to write. Use the example below, and just replace *** with the name of the bin file (make sure you leave the 2 " in there). The track depends on what's in the bin file. In my example, it was for a game so it just started at 00. However, a movie or something might have more than 1 track.


FILE "***" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

 

[Moonbender]

That's basically what Nero does (make up standard values), though, so if he's dealing with a CD more complicated than a pure ISO9660 image, that won't work.

 

[Bronxkid]

Thanks for the suggestions. I used isobuster to extract the files. Looks like it worked well. I wasn't confident in making a cue file because there are two bin files that are basically disc 1 and disc 2 of a program I have and I didn't know if the second file is labelled track 2 index 2 or 1. I'm sure someone more competent than me would be able to do this. Anyways, thanks for the help, problem solved!