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== Disc Archaeology ==
''Findings from a byte-level analysis of the US retail disc image (525,209,600 bytes / 256,000 blocks; 150 filesystem entries).''
=== Menus from an unreleased Casper volume ===
The disc's <code>/Screens</code> folder contains a complete, polished episode-selection menu for a '''Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon volume that was never released on 3DO'''. MCA Universal shipped only the three Woody Woodpecker volumes; no Casper cartoon disc exists — yet Volume One carries:
* <code>Casper_Menu.img</code> — a finished menu screen: Casper presenting four episode thumbnails (legible titles include ''"The Absent Minded Robot"'' and two giant-themed episodes) around an "ALL FOUR" play-all button, in the same wooden-frame style as the Woody menu.
* <code>Casper_Menu4.img.old</code> — an '''earlier revision of the same menu''', identical except the "ALL FOUR" button hadn't been added yet — two iterations of an unreleased product's UI, both pressed to retail.
* <code>Casper_Red_HiLite.cel</code> — the menu's selection-highlight graphic.
* The executable itself loads <code>$boot/Screens/Casper_Menu.img</code> by name: the shipped player was built to run both titles, and the Casper volume was evidently in production alongside Volume One when the disc was mastered.
=== Other development leftovers ===
* <code>launchme</code> references <code>$boot/Woody_Intro.stream</code> — a file that does not exist on the disc; the intro was cut or renamed after the code was built.
* Superseded menu revisions ship alongside the finals: <code>Woody_Menu1.img.old</code>, <code>Woody_Menu2.img.old</code>, <code>Help.img.old</code>.
* Two development utilities sit at the disc root: <code>memtest</code> (20,384 bytes) and <code>symanim</code> (43,772 bytes).
* <code>/vspics</code> is a folder of leftover test images: <code>TestO.cel</code>, <code>test3.cel</code>, <code>testd.cel</code> (each with a 50%-scale twin) and a stock photo, <code>reef.img</code>.
* The player's disc-locking routines are named after Quick Draw McGraw's alter ego: <code>performElKabong</code>, <code>initElKabong</code>, <code>elKabongRequired</code> — with "jamming" and "unjamming" I/O operations on a "kabonging file".
=== Structure notes ===
The four cartoons (''Hot Noon'', ''Panhandle Scandal'', ''Pistol Packin' Woodpecker'', ''Short in the Saddle'' — a western-themed volume) ship as four ~100 MB streams with chapter markers for the rewind/fast-forward controls. The disc uses only '''two''' root-directory copies, placed adjacently — minimal redundancy.
=== No text credits ===
A full-image sweep finds no staff names, no "Universal", not even "Lantz" as text anywhere on the disc — the only identifying text is in the menu artwork itself.
=== Unallocated space ===
51,565 blocks (~101 MB, 20% of the disc) belong to no file, in a single run. Every byte was checked: 100% standard <code>iamaduck</code> mastering filler, nothing hidden inside.

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