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== Disc Archaeology ==
''Findings from a byte-level analysis of the US retail disc image (524,906,496 bytes / 256,000 blocks; 150 filesystem entries).''
=== Menus from an unreleased Casper volume ===
The <code>/Screens</code> folder contains a complete, finished episode-selection menu for a '''Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon volume that was never released on 3DO''': <code>Casper_Menu.img</code> (Casper presenting four episode thumbnails around an "ALL FOUR" button), an earlier revision <code>Casper_Menu4.img.old</code> (before the "ALL FOUR" button was added), and the menu's selection highlight <code>Casper_Red_HiLite.cel</code>. The shipped executable loads <code>Casper_Menu.img</code> by name — the player was built to serve both titles, but no Casper volume ever shipped.
=== Warner Bros. material on an MCA disc ===
Two further screens belong to neither Woody nor Casper:
* <code>Batman_Menu.img</code> — despite its filename, the image is a disclaimer card in Batman-style lettering: ''"This presentation is used with permission from Warner Bros. — for promotional purposes only."''
* <code>Warner_Logo.img</code> — the '''Warner Bros. Family Entertainment shield, complete with Bugs Bunny'''.
Neither file is referenced by the shipped executable — they are working-directory leftovers from a Warner Bros. promotional presentation built with the same player, pressed onto a rival studio's retail disc (see Speculation).
=== Other development leftovers ===
* <code>launchme</code> references <code>$boot/Woody_Intro.stream</code> — a file that does not exist on the disc.
* A superseded <code>Help.img.old</code> ships alongside the final.
* Development utilities <code>memtest</code> and <code>symanim</code> sit at the disc root, and <code>/vspics</code> holds leftover test images (<code>TestO.cel</code>, <code>test3.cel</code>, <code>testd.cel</code> with 50%-scale twins, and a stock photo <code>reef.img</code>).
* The player's disc-locking routines are named <code>performElKabong</code>/<code>initElKabong</code>, after Quick Draw McGraw's alter ego.
=== Structure notes ===
Four ~100 MB cartoon streams with chapter markers; only two root-directory copies, placed adjacently. A full-image sweep finds no text credits anywhere on the disc. All 53,341 unallocated blocks (~104 MB) verified as 100% <code>iamaduck</code> filler.
The likely origin: the 3DO's pack-in '''Interactive Sampler discs included a ''Batman: The Animated Series'' cartoon''' presented under exactly this kind of Warner Bros. permission disclaimer. These screens are evidently production leftovers from that sampler segment — the same player and production environment served both MCA's retail cartoon volumes and the sampler's Batman presentation, and the sampler assets stayed behind in the working directory when this volume was mastered.

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