Two quick questions about .bin images and media format.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2006-07-17 12:35pm

I'm trying to burn images of Freespace 2 and I noticed under Nero and Alcohol that .bin is not supported so do I have to rename the extension or burn it as .cue?

Alcohol does gives me a set of parameters to set before I decide to burn but I'm not sure what to put as values in...

Is it fine to burn them onto separate DVD-Rs? I know it's overkill but will it support it?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-07-17 12:50pm

Normally a BIN image comes with a CUE sheet file - and that CUE sheet is supposed to contain various parameters for burning.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2006-07-17 12:52pm

There are no .Cues included with the .bin

I'm going to try and redownload them.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-07-17 01:22pm

Just rename it to .iso and most programs should recognise it correctly internaly even without the .cue file then hopefuly. I know Daemon Tools does for one.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-07-17 01:56pm

Or you can make a cue file. Open a blank notepad document, type

FILE filename.BIN BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

save, then rename it's extension to CUE.

I don't know if it'll work, but it might be worth a try.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2006-07-17 02:23pm

Bounty wrote:*snip*
I don't know if it'll work, but it might be worth a try.

Damn, that's less reassuring than mmar's "hopefully". I'll try mmar's suggestion first as that's what I was thinking of possibly doing.