Got the .BIN, what now?

[headcase]

I'm writing a stroy about a guy who downloaded a PC game on Bittorrent recently in the form of a large BIN file, a small CUE file and an MSInfo Document. However, I don't know what he would do after that. Anyone want to finish the story?

[odin_dax]

Burn them to a single disc.

[Stone]

http://www.imgburn.com/

[DIzzIE]

A bin file is just an image of a disc, and the cue file is a pointer for it. Go to the link Stone provided, install ImgBurn, associate bin/cue filetypes with it, and then just double-click on the cue file to open it in ImgBurn and burn it onto a CD or DVD. If you get an error when clicking on the cue file, open it up in Notepad and strip away any location pointers (i.e. if it says "C:\porn\scat.bin", change it to just "scat.bin").

If you don't want to burn the file, install Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php) and then mount the image onto the virtual drive DT creates and it will be as if you burned the disc. You can then access all of the files from the emulated disc drive without having to waste time and media burning shit.

Also, you can open the nfo file in Notepad, but it will probably look like watery poo. You can try setting the font size to 10 and the font to Courier New to make it look a bit better, or get a proper nfo reader program like GetDiz (http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=4).

Be sure to read through the install instructions that'll probably be in the nfo file as they'll let you know of any patches or magic numbers (:wink:) that you might need to use to successfully install the item in question.

[Mr.V]

Note you don't HAVE to burn it, in the past few months I never burned a game, I just extract or mount the image and it's all good with a cute little NoCd/DvD crack on it get those cracks at www.gamecopyworld.com Make sure your crack and game version are equal... In most cases (pretty obvious) one can't crack for example amadio.exe v1.6 with a amadio.exe v2.1 crack..

.daa files I extract with PowerIso
there are pretty much iso types if I am right.. atleast theres not a single one, there's more.

Daemon tools is also very popular.

In some cases one could also download multiple rar files witch are named like bf-tz.r01 or something similiar,
With these, just select all of them and right click-> extract to

Plus: There are a lot of RIP's on the scene, These sometimes have things out of them like a GTA rip with no radio stations, or no cutscenes etc.
Sometimes these just need to be extracted and you can play them at once, PC RIP's take alot LESS space, but they miss things. :cry:
In most cases everything really important is ripped with it.

Good luck friend

[DoctaD]

I always mount a bin image before potentially wasting a disk, like if the file is corrupt or the game is shit.