I recently downloaded 3 .bin files (2 of em are 740 MB and one is 230 MB) and 3 .cue files. Now, what do I do with them? Do I have to burn them on 3 seperate CDs (which won't allow me to install the game) or jam them on a single CD (which is practically impossible)? Please help. I want to play this game so badly.
No... there's nothing in there. It only explains something about backing up CD files. That doesn't help my situation.
Wrong. All is explained there. But maybe you donn't know what an 'image' is. Let's start from the beginning. You have three image files, that is three 'CUE/BIN' sets. Each of them represent a dump of all info that were written on a physical CD. This is an alternative (and better) method to simply copying files from the CD to the HD. If the original CDs were not protected, you could do what you want, and burn the three images into three new CD-R with a wide range of software, as explained in the 'burning guide to newbies' (I would suggest you to read it): http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/20980 But the resulting CD will not work if the original CD is protected. Basically, I would suggest you to install [bold]Alcohol 120% [/bold] and read some guides about how to use it, for instance: http://cd-rw.org/articles/archive/alcohol120guide.cfm (You'll start from the middle of the guide, from the 'Image Burning Wizard') If you read in deep the first guide I posted ('expert' guite to backup protected CDs - and burn protected CD images as well), you'll see that when you backup a CD you need to know which protection (if any) is embedded into it, because 99% ot the time the burned CD will not work if you didn't set the proper backup settings in order to copy the protection scheme. When you already have an image (CUE/BIN or CCD/IMG/SUB and so on) you have 50% of the work done but you still have to burn it back on a CD. The original guide I sugegsted explains how to: 1) detect the protection on a CD (Scan with ClonyXXL) or Image ('mount' with Alcohol 120% and scan with Clony XXL) as written in: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/28379 2) dump an image from a CD (make a BIN/CUE from a CD) (step you have done already) 3) burn the image into a new CD-R.
Hmm, so what I have to do is use Clony, check the cue/bin files for any protection, extract an Image file from the cue/bin files, and then burn it on my CD, right? OK, and if there's a protection on any of my cue/bin, how will I remove it? Sorry if I keep bugging you guys. I'm too lazy to read a hundred paragraphs of stuff I almost have no idea about.
Oh, by the way, I downloaded those files off the Internet, so it's apparent that I have no CD to use CloneXXL on.
You go on avoiding to read. You 'mount' images on Alcohol = [bold]your PC installs a 'virtual drive' and it's like the image has been burned on a CD-R[/bold]: you can look inside the image, scan it and run executables. And after scanning: you don't 'remove' the protection you 'backup' the protection too so that the backup seems like an original CD. This is one by Alcohol [bold]once you do the effort of reading the guides[/bold]
Alright, alright. It's getting a bit clearer. I'll go and read and come back until I'm absolutely sure what I'm doing.
Hmm, one thing I noticed... I mounted the 3 files with Alcohol, and when I try to install the game, it goes perfectly well until it asks me for a Disk 2 (which contains data3.cab. Is it normal? My 3 cue/bin files are for one disk only. And if I recall, Enclave does not take 2 CDs to install... Or do I have to burn everything on a single CD like you said for it to work?
Oh, wait... Nevermind! I double-clicked the 2nd cue/bin file on my Alcohol list and it loaded itself! I thought it was part of Disk 1, but it turned out to be Disk 2 all the time... YES! I'm continuing to install...
You could have burned the images on three CDs (after scanning, in order to detect the protection and to set up the correct 'datatype' for Alcohol 120%) and you would have gotten the same results. Please note that if a CD has 'CD-check' (the need of having the original CD inserted on CD-ROM slot in order to play the game) simply installing from virtual drives might not work.
