{"id":4769,"date":"2020-11-26T23:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:41:19","slug":"mcdonalds-lost-nintendo-ds-training-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4769","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Lost Nintendo DS Training Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KJTZsL_UYwA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding prototype and undistributed copies of retro games has turned into a modern day treasure hunt. Finding such a gem can result in your copy selling for thousands or even <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stadium_Events#:~:text=Stadium%20Events%20copies%20have%20been,the%20video%20game%20collecting%20market.\" target=\"_blank\">tens of thousands<\/a> of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story of a long-lost Nintendo DS game that was finally found and given away &#8211; for free. It was called eCDP (<em>eCrew Development Program<\/em>) and was distributed to various McDonalds throughout Japan to help train employees. Follow the fun adventures Nick Robinson had tracking this down, buying it, and then finally playing through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, if you want, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/mcdonalds-japan-ecdp-rom-training-nintendo-ds-cartridge-dump\" target=\"_blank\">you can download a copy yourself<\/a> and play it on a DS emulator. I applaud Nick&#8217;s values of not seeking profits first, but preservation by offering copies for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ECrew_Development_Program\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ECrew_Development_Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding prototype and undistributed copies of retro games has turned into a modern day treasure hunt. Finding such a gem can result in your copy selling for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Here&#8217;s the story of a long-lost Nintendo DS game that was finally found and given away &#8211; for free. It was called eCDP (eCrew Development Program) and was distributed to various McDonalds throughout Japan to help train employees. Follow the fun adventures Nick Robinson had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4769\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1eV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14933,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions\/14933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}