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Depends on what it's "supposed" to be - it's a common extension - and where you got it
In the context of gaming, a BIN (& CUE) file generally indicates a CD image, much like an ISO - burn with your favourite burning program or mount with a virtual drive app (Nero (full version) does both) - daemon tools is popular (many more) - your choice may depend on whether or not you need to circumvent copy protection, and what kind
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

i downloaded a game and the files came out
(.R00)(.R01)(.R02)(.R03)(.R04)(.R05)and so on
i used WinRar to extract the files and they came out to be one big .BIN file
and now i want to play the game but dont know what to do???
Thankz for the Help

... kinda what I'd thought
Not really my area of expertise - I would assume it is a CD image from its size alone, but BIN files (afaik) usually come with an important CUE file too.
You can try daemon tools or scout around for some other CD emulator and see if one or another will mount the image.
If your BitTorrent source (or wherever) has a forum or FAQ sheet or comments, might try checking there - no comments in the RAR?
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

yea it did come with a .CUE file that was smaller in size
so i just download the daemon tools and mount all the .BIN files or the .CUE files???or should i mount the one large .BIN file???
i used MagicISO and mounted the large .BIN file but nothing happened it said it was extracing it but the file stayed the same
dont know what happened

Daemon tools loads the CUE file when opening one of those - but both files should be in the same folder - you'll see once you start it up and mount the image, it'll create a virtual CD or DVD drive with its own letter
Should be one BIN & one CUE per disc image
Hard to say why it didn't work for you - could be a system problem, bad download or something else again - try some different applications, if none work, bad d/l seems most likely
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

"i downloaded a game and the files came out
(.R00)(.R01)(.R02)(.R03)(.R04)(.R05)and so on
i used WinRar to extract the files and they came out to be one big .BIN file
and now i want to play the game but dont know what to do???"in other words, you just illegally downloaded a game. nice job jboy, thanks for YOUR help! you just told us you are just like him.
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where would u download Daemon tools because when i downloaded it the core files were not included with the download

Oh Rax - don't you have anything better to do than make foolish statements that reveal your ignorance?
... I suppose not
CUE & BIN files, virtual CD drives and WinRAR are all legitimate Windows applications and concepts - so my advice to you is to tell someone who cares
Daemon Tools download page
If that doesn't work, try Googling for other apps, or see if you can burn it
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

If magicISO has the capability of mounting ISO images, I don't think you need to be looking all around for the 'evil' tool.

Yeah - that should have worked, but it's not like there's a shortage of applications that work with CD images
As mentioned, the file may be corrupt
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

i used Nero to convert the .BIN file into an .ISO and it worked
then i burned the .ISO to a CD and it the autorun ran fine but and error came up
but i think i need to get the original because i downloaded the expansion and maybe thats why i hasent worked yet
but anyways thanks for all of ur help it really helped me out
THANKZZZ

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