Can anyone help me once and for all?

[MrPopo]

I can definately confirm that it works with Curse of Monkey Island, as I had found an image of it a long time ago, and I've been rocking out with the first three Monkey Island games since. And the Wii port of ScummVM is great.

[Funk, E]

I don't think the Wii version will run The Dig yet, though, which is a crime.

I've also got a port of SCUMMVM on my Pocket PC, which is awesome. Touchscreen is the way these games were meant to be played.

[Niode]

I love Scummvm on iPhone. It's the mutt's.

[thejamessea]

Alright, new problem:
I downloaded Curse of Monkey Island from a torrent file and I now have .bin and .cue files. ScummVM says it cant find a game when I try to add the folders. I'm assuming it's because I have to do something to these .bin/.cue's?

I tried decompressing them with Stuffit expander, but still no good. Any ideas?

[MrPopo]

Ok, so the bin/cue format is an image of the CD. The bin is the actual binary data, while the cue is some information about the contents of the disk, namely the readout of the tracks. There are two things you can do to get it up and running. The first is to burn the file to a CD. You would use software like Nero to burn from an image file. This would give you a copy of the original CD. You then would point ScummVM at the proper directory on the CD. The other option is to use a virtual CD drive, and mount the image to it. You can use a utility like Daemon Tools to create a fake CD drive that reads from an image file on your computer, so from the perspective of the applications it's no different from having a normal CD drive. This saves you the blank CD-R, plus swapping disks.

[Niode]

Ok, so the bin/cue format is an image of the CD. The bin is the actual binary data, while the cue is some information about the contents of the disk, namely the readout of the tracks. There are two things you can do to get it up and running. The first is to burn the file to a CD. You would use software like Nero to burn from an image file. This would give you a copy of the original CD. You then would point ScummVM at the proper directory on the CD. The other option is to use a virtual CD drive, and mount the image to it. You can use a utility like Daemon Tools to create a fake CD drive that reads from an image file on your computer, so from the perspective of the applications it's no different from having a normal CD drive. This saves you the blank CD-R, plus swapping disks.

He uses a mac, daemon tools won't work. If you don't know anything about Macs just let the resident Mac expert (aka, me) demystify everything.

The simplest method is to just burn the disc image with Disk Utility. If Disk Utility won't burn it, he's going to need an App called 'Burn'. AFAIK there is no free utility to mount Bin+Cue images. He is going to have to either use Roxio's Toast to mount the image or use Burn, to burn the image to a CD-R and then use that to play the game from.

[thejamessea]

Everyone's been really helpful. Thanks!

To the resident mac expert : Burning the disc into a mounted image in Disc Utility. How is that accomplished exactly? Am I physically burning it to a CD or can you just kind of make that into it's own little readable file?

Shrug.

Thanks.

[skate323k137]

i know you didn't ask me, but burning it do a disc would probably be the easiest and can be accomplished with most any burning software.

The other method involves creating a virtual disc drive, and doing what is called mounting the disc image. When you're done, your PC thinks it has another cd drive with said disc in it. Not that bad for advanced users, but I couldn't tell you how to do it outside of alcohol 120% (which i don't believe is available for mac)

[Niode]

Everyone's been really helpful. Thanks!

To the resident mac expert : Burning the disc into a mounted image in Disc Utility. How is that accomplished exactly? Am I physically burning it to a CD or can you just kind of make that into it's own little readable file?

Shrug.

Thanks.

Well, there is no free software for the mac that allows you to mount (aka make an image into a browsable folder, like a virtual CD) bin+cue AFAIK. (a quick google search confirmed my doubts, if there is one out there, it's really hard to find!).

What you will need is to download Burn.
When it has downloaded, open the zip file (if safari hasn't already unzipped it for you, if you can't find where it has download just click the little magnifying glass next to the download in your safari's download window) and drag the app to your applications folder to install.
Run Burn.
Click on the Copy button at the top of the app.
Open the cue file (make sure it's the cue file you are opening and not the bin, the Cue is what tells the burning software when and where to burn the binary data). You can also just drag the cue file onto window as well.
Insert a blank CD-R and click burn.
When the CD-R has finished burning. Re-insert it into your mac and then open SCUMMVM.
Click Add Game.
Browse to the CD-R that you have just inserted and click open on the root directory of the disc (AKA the first window that comes up when you click on the CD-R from your finder window)
If you can't find the CD-R just click the little pill shaped button on the top right of the window to open your 'Devices' sidebar then just click the CD-R.
That's it.

Unfortunately you're going to have to use a CD-R. Since these are stupidly cheap these days (50 CD-Rs in a cakebox are about £6 these days) and macs have had some form of burning drive in them for about 5 years now you shouldn't have a problem.

Good luck.

[thejamessea]

SUCCESS!

: D

Thanks everyone. I can now play damn near all the Lucasarts adventure games on my iMac!

Now I just need a solution for Tie Fighter