Hello, i'm currently got SheepShaver installed to emulate my old Mac OS9 image so i can play some of my old games without me having to dig around to find an old Mac, while i have CD images of some of my old games that i've gotten to work without much hassle some games i had and lost that exist on this site, for example Prime Target, sadly its only a 7z file with the .cue and .bin / 1.2 updater, i've got an old version of Roxio Toast 5 thats i've got on the Emulated device but haven't the faintest idea on how to create a bootable image from the .bin / .cue, and i haven't found any guides on how todo this properly, can anyone help me out?
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2014, March 16 - 5:57pm
#1
Issues with creating a Bootable cd image.
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2014, March 16 - 10:04pm
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The Prime Target CD is "bootable"? Bootable to me means the CD would also contain an OS with which to boot up a computer (like a disk repair or system install CD/DVD would have). Do you mean "mountable" instead?
Tho' I wouldn't be attempting to burn a CD in Sheepshaver (I don't think it can "see" a CD writer), instead you should use software for this on your host computer.
With regards to .bin/cue images, I've only used ImgBurn on Windows to burn these, but I imagine it would be similar for most burning software. That is, load the .cue file into the burner software, load a blank CD-R/RW into the tray, click burn & let it take it from there.
2014, March 17 - 12:33am
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Is there anyway to install the game with the .bin file, the .cue from what i can see only has the Music Tracks for the game itself, no application for install and as for the bin file i can't mount it or burn it, is the bin an installer itself? i can't unpack it or anything.
2014, March 17 - 3:04am
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is the bin an installer itself? i can't unpack it or anything.
No. if the CD is mixed mode (data + music tracks) then they are all in the .bin file. The .cue file is what contains the info for the burner as to how and what it needs to do with the .bin file. Because of this its the .cue file that you need to drag to or point your burning software towards, to get it to burn the .bin image correctly back to CD.
Bin/Cue files aren't like single track .iso or .cdr & you do need the .cue file to get it to burn correctly, so you'll need some burning software on your computer that can do this for you, such as Toast, ImgBurn, UltraISO etc.
2014, March 17 - 2:14am
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On a Mac, Toast 7 will burn a physical mixed mode CD from the bin/cue pair. Just drag the .cue file to the open Toast window. You can do this in OS X if that is most convenient. Alternatively there are a variety of solutions if you use a Windows machine for the purpose. MikeTomTom has already mentioned ImgBurn, but there are others (UltraIso is one).
2014, March 17 - 6:16pm
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Don´t hope for too much anyways with bin/cue "disks" and emulators.
The reason for encoding bin/cue was the mixed mode CD. Even if you burn the image to disk again, the game on the disk will likely not work with BII or SS. The emulators CD ROM handler usually just "sees" the CD´s first part and ignores the following partitions.