https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator

.iso contains nothing but the bare minimum necessary for a (well specced) ISO9660 disc. It doesn't even do audio, ffs. Bad choice for your oddball formats.

That DiscImageCreator looks good, or you could use something else that tries to preserve as much info as possible, e.g. Alcohol, CloneCD, BlindWrite, ... . You can always convert to a "lesser" format later.

What are you mounting them with?
Some programs don't work properly with bin/cue

Try Daemontools if you're not already.

elszgensa wrote on 2024-03-19, 23:56:

That DiscImageCreator looks good, or you could use something else that tries to preserve as much info as possible

nothing else tries to "preserve as much info as possible" than DIC - it's now the de-facto gold-standard for preservation, but depending on what you want to preserve you might need some of the special Optical Drives, for example Plextor that supports "D8" command or Asus/LG that supports "BE" command, etc.

Nothing else?

leileilol wrote on 2024-03-20, 01:27:

Nothing else?

yeah, maybe, but how good it is, because I see in their history of updates that for example:

"Oct 16, 2023
Add raw DVD reading with HL-DT-ST command "

and that same thing, i.t. RawDVDRead with those drives, I used 4 years ago with DIC, i.e. in that particular feature they were years behind DIC.

So, that project "Aaru" might be good, but it lacks proper documentation what is supported what is not, etc - for example do they support "BE" command with Asus/LG, etc, etc. I cannot find any information - I guess I need to read their Source Code to get an answer.

[EDIT] also, if Auro is that good and reliable, why huge projects like http://redump.org/ are not using it and they use DIC instead?

Not sure if it helps but

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/looking-for-high-sierra/

mattw wrote on 2024-03-19, 23:49:

https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator

Thanks! I'll give this a try and report back on how it works!

How about Nero Burning Rom? It has a virtual recorder that can be used to "burn" an original CD/DVD into.
After finishing the burning process, the result will be an NRG file that contains mixed-mode information.
I'm not sure if it's good enough for High Sierra and other old formats, but Mac/Windows/CD-Audio hybrids can be stored this way.
The NRG format is proprietary, yes, but many programs can read it. Virtual CD-ROMs like MagicISO and Daemon Tools included.