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== Disc Archaeology ==<br />
''Findings from a byte-level analysis of the Korean retail disc (raw MODE1/2352 dump, 66,860 sectors — every sector's sync pattern verified intact; 136,929,280 bytes of user data / 66,560 filesystem blocks).''<br />
=== The KKH format ===<br />
Virtually every asset on the disc — fighter sprites, backgrounds, fonts, score digits, the select screen, extras — is packed into a custom archive format with the extension <code>.KKH</code>. Each fighter's data follows a rigid six-file scheme: <code>DATA</code> (sprite archive), <code>SEEK</code>, <code>ACT</code> (actions), <code>IDX</code>, <code>PAL</code> (palette) and <code>FILE</code>, all <code>.KKH</code>. The extension is not a known 3DO SDK format; it reads like a personal signature (see Speculation).<br />
=== Two hidden fighters, one shared ending ===<br />
The character-data tree contains 15 fighters: the playable roster (<code>roy_</code>, <code>wang</code>, <code>jiho</code>, <code>hoya</code>, <code>kawa</code>, <code>jaki</code>, <code>mui_</code>, <code>nata</code>, <code>nels</code>, <code>powe</code>, <code>saur</code>, <code>tlal</code>, <code>dalm</code>) plus two directories named <code>hidmdata</code> and <code>hidwdata</code> — '''hid'''den '''m'''ale and '''hid'''den '''w'''oman. They are real, distinct characters — their sprite archives differ completely (497,268 vs 228,552 bytes) and their palettes differ in 363 of 912 bytes — but their ending assets are lazy copies: <code>hidm.cel</code> and <code>hidw.cel</code> are byte-identical, as are their 'finish' portraits <code>p1_hidmF.cel</code>/<code>p1_hidwF.cel</code>. Whatever ending art the hidden pair earned, both show the same picture.<br />
=== Strings in the executable ===<br />
* The round-announcement table includes <code>specialround</code> and <code>extraround</code> alongside the standard <code>round1</code>–<code>round3</code>/<code>finalround</code> — bonus round types compiled into the shipping game.<br />
* A high-score table survives: ''"RANKING TOP 5"'' / ''"INPUT YOUR NAME"''.<br />
* The most emphatic error message on the disc: <code>AAini ERR .!!!!!!!!</code><br />
* No credits text and no plain-text Korean exist anywhere on the disc; all Hangul and any staff roll are pre-rendered into graphics.<br />
* Naming discipline slips through in shipped filenames: <code>p1_mui_W.cel</code> but <code>p1_mui_f.cel</code> — the same fighter's win/finish art capitalized two different ways.<br />
=== Mastering desynchronization in the filesystem itself ===<br />
The Opera filesystem stores every directory as multiple redundant copies ("avatars"). On this disc the copies '''disagree''': five system directories (<code>Devices</code>, <code>Drivers</code>, <code>Folios</code>, <code>Programs</code>, <code>Scripts</code>) carry one stale older-generation copy, and the two copies of the <code>rom_tags</code> boot table are different generations. These are coherent alternate versions pressed into the disc, not dump errors; the root directory copies verify hash-identical, every file extent is intact, and all 66,860 raw sectors carry valid sync headers.<br />
=== Unallocated space ===<br />
13,076 blocks (~26 MB, 20% of the disc) belong to no file, in three runs. Every byte was checked: 100% standard <code>iamaduck</code> mastering filler, nothing hidden inside.<br />
=== Speculation ===<br />
''Informed guesswork, clearly separated from the findings above.''<br />
* '''Whose initials are KKH?''' A custom format named after its author would fit Korean 3DO practice — initials also turn up in filenames on other Korean pressings. K.K.H. matches common Korean name patterns (Kim/Kang/Kwon + given name). A more playful reading: Viccom was Korea's fighting-game studio (best known for the Neo Geo title ''Fight Fever''), and "Kim Kaphwan" — SNK's famous Korean taekwondo fighter — shares the initials exactly. Whether it's a programmer's signature or an homage, the disc doesn't say.<br />
* '''A shared Korean mastering pipeline.''' This disc carries the same filesystem "desynchronization" fingerprint — the same five stale system-directory copies and mismatched <code>rom_tags</code> generations — found on other Korean 3DO retail pressings of the same era. That pattern is most easily explained by a single mastering workstation and disc-layout template serving multiple Korean releases, presumably tied to LG's role as Korea's 3DO licensee, regardless of which studio developed the game.</div>Elliogle