The GAME.DAT file is the cuesheet (.CUE) part of the image (it's just a text file), GAME.GOG contains the file data (.BIN file of the CUE/BIN format, I believe). The audio tracks are separate MP3 files (02.MP3 to 10.MP3).

I haven't tested it myself, but it should work if you can manage to merge the data and audio files back into a real CD. I guess using MP3 files as part of a CUE/BIN CD image is only supported in DOSBox and not by any CD burning software, meaning you can't just burn the image as-is, but I could be wrong.

Ahh, hmm... so I have to find some way to extract data from the '.GOG' file, combine it with the MP3 files into a CUE, BIN or ISO?

Sounds like the answer to my OP is basically no and that you need the original disc(s) if you want to play on real hardware.

Instead of burning a CD you could try using the free DOS utility SHSUCD to mount the image as a virtual CD. I got HoMM2 to run in real DOS this way (another game from GOG which runs inside dosbox)

infiniteclouds wrote:

Sounds like the answer to my OP is basically no and that you need the original disc(s) if you want to play on real hardware.

You can simply burn the GOG cd disc image and use that on real hardware. Or, if you don't care about cd audio, you can extract the files from the cd image and apply a no-cd patch. Every GOG game that runs inside DOSBox also works on real hardware.

They may work but occasionally they are crippled by gog (no more install, sound setup program etc).
In this case, a burning program that handles cue/bin files is good enough to burn it without having to extract the files (the combination gog uses is just renamed cue/bin)

Philscomputerlab did a video on burning a CD for Tomb Raider using the GOG version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJuPWutxhc

Why not just buy a genuine CD of Tomb Raider? Not that costly on ebay are they? GOG seems like a convoluted way to install games IMO.

skitters wrote:

Philscomputerlab did a video on burning a CD for Tomb Raider using the GOG version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJuPWutxhc

Aahhh! Of course! I actually searched his channel for "Tomb Raider" so I didn't find this. Thanks Phil!