the names are descent2.iso and descent2.bin, minding case.

and there are a few versions of the instructions, some say -t iso and others say -t cdrom, and some say to include -fs iso and some don't. But as you can see, I tried all possible combinations.

edit: is there a way I can check if the cue file is referencing the correct bin file?

please post the contents of the cue file. You are confusing me with the descent2.iso - where does that come from? If the bin file referenced in the cue is written the same way and case as written in the cue, no path in the cue and cue and bin files in the same folder it should work.

Dominus wrote:

please post the contents of the cue file. You are confusing me with the descent2.iso

i meant descent2.cue, not /.iso. sry

I'll post the contents of the cue in a moment.

descent2.cue:

1CD_ROM
2
3
4// Track 1
5TRACK MODE1_RAW
6NO COPY
7DATAFILE "descent2.bin" 38:15:22 // length in bytes: 404889744
8
9
10// Track 2
11TRACK AUDIO
12NO COPY
13PRE_EMPHASIS
14TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
15SILENCE 00:02:00
16FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 0 00:40:24
17START 00:02:00
18
19
20// Track 3
21TRACK AUDIO
22NO COPY
23PRE_EMPHASIS
24TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
25FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 00:40:24 02:36:45
26START 00:00:27
27
28
29// Track 4
30TRACK AUDIO
31NO COPY
32PRE_EMPHASIS
33TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
34FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 03:16:69 01:55:39
35START 00:00:26
36
37
38// Track 5
39TRACK AUDIO
40NO COPY
41PRE_EMPHASIS
42TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
43FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 05:12:33 02:29:33
44START 00:00:05
45
46
47// Track 6
48TRACK AUDIO
49NO COPY
50PRE_EMPHASIS
51TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
52FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 07:41:66 03:02:44
53START 00:00:14
54
55
56// Track 7
57TRACK AUDIO
58NO COPY
59PRE_EMPHASIS
60TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO

61FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 10:44:35 02:28:35
62START 00:00:23
63
64
65// Track 8
66TRACK AUDIO
67NO COPY
68PRE_EMPHASIS
69TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
70FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 13:12:70 03:23:36
71START 00:00:21
72
73
74// Track 9
75TRACK AUDIO
76NO COPY
77PRE_EMPHASIS
78TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
79FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 16:36:31 02:50:18
80START 00:00:13
81
82
83// Track 10
84TRACK AUDIO
85NO COPY
86PRE_EMPHASIS
87TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
88FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 19:26:49 02:45:39
89START 00:00:09
90
91
92// Track 11
93TRACK AUDIO
94NO COPY
95PRE_EMPHASIS
96TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
97FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 22:12:13 02:42:43
98START 00:00:06
99
100
101// Track 12
102TRACK AUDIO
103NO COPY
104PRE_EMPHASIS
105TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
106FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 24:54:56 02:18:05
107START 00:00:07
108
109
110// Track 13
111TRACK AUDIO
112NO COPY
113PRE_EMPHASIS
114TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
115FILE "descent2.bin" #404889744 27:12:61 02:53:51
116START 00:00:04

...all looks well to me.

Doesn't look to me like a standard cue sheet en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)#section_4

Okay, I got it to work. I was using cdrdao which was making a .toc file instead of a .cue file. I used toc2cue to convert it, and mounting worked. I've installed Descent II, but there's one problem: the redbook audio is white noise. This has something to do with cdrdao I think. As far as this thread is concerned, problem solved.

glad you got it to work. Unfortunately it seems like the *nix tools aren't that good at creating bin/cue images. So far I've had to resolve running Alcohol 120% in a Windows VM to get proper images 🙁

mspc wrote:

Okay, I got it to work. I was using cdrdao which was making a .toc file instead of a .cue file. I used toc2cue to convert it, and mounting worked. I've installed Descent II, but there's one problem: the redbook audio is white noise. This has something to do with cdrdao I think. As far as this thread is concerned, problem solved.

The noise thing might be a byte-order related issue. See the following page for solving that, if you agree to re-rip the contents from the original CD:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Cuesheet

As an alternative, if you don't wish to touch the CD again, you *might* be able to externally mount the bin+cue (or bin+toc) as a virtual drive with cdemu, and then re-rip with cdrdao to swap the byte order (from the drive mounted by cdemu). I'm unsure it's better than re-ripping from the CD itself, though.