by Kroagnon » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:36 pm
I've used CloneCD to create the image (tried using both 'CD Extra' and 'Mixed Media' profiles); it refuses to create a cue because it's multisession. Fair enough. Results in ccd, img and sub files.
I have then mounted it with CloneDrive (ccd) where it only shows up as an audio cd (no data is visible). Audio tracks play fine.
Other mounting attempts have been with WinCDEmu (says it's corrupted and shows nothing) and ImDisk (as a CD, which just gives "an error occured while mounting").
I also created an image using ImgBurn (resulted in cue, ccd and img) which gives the exact same results as above when mounted (i.e. either audio tracks only or corrupted).
I don't have Alcohol or DaemonTools installed (Alcohol was my go-to program many years ago, though), but might give those a try and will report back!
Worst case, I know I can make two disc images - one of the demo data, one of the audio - since it's not a game needing CD audio, but a "combo" soundtrack and demo, but I'd ideally like a true image of the full thing to share if possible.
EDIT:
Made an image with Alcohol and same results as above. However, Alcohol's virtual drive mounts it correctly; that is, I can see the data files in Explorer on the mounted disc, and WMP can play it as an audio CD! Tried mounting my previous CloneCD and ImgBurn images and they all work too... so it seems that the issue was with finicky mounting software rather than the images!
As a result, I've switched from CloneDrive to Alcohol (nostalgia!) for my image mounting now, since it's clearly more capable than CloneDrive or WinCDEmu.
My only remaining question is: is there a preference for a format of image to share here? Is CloneCD (with sub data) the "truest"? Is Alcohol's format better? Or the image created in Imgburn, given it produces a cue as well (so can be mounted in DOSBox)?