I Found a McDonalds Nintendo DSI

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[@Muzkind]

Hi Elliot. I live in Japan so I can illuminate a little on that name. The "-ten" just means shop, so I suspected Komatsu Awazuten simply referred to the location this unit belonged to. Sure enough, there is a McDonalds in the Awazu district of Komatsu City in Ishikawa Prefecture. I'd guess that is your device's original "home".

[@polen2077]

yep

[@alisonmcgregor2002]

that’s very interesting!!!!

[@Adventist1997]

Knowing this makes me really want to visit Japan even more... 😂

[@polen2077]

@@Adventist1997 Visit this Mcdonalds!

[@Adventist1997]

@@polen2077 If it still exist when I get there, I'm 100% visiting it.

[@thepugchugzchannel4511]

Hey man! You doing alright? Been a rough couple months for you. Glad to see you are still bright and happy though. (atleast on camera) we appreciate you and all your content! Keep up the great work Elliot!

[@TheRetroFuture]

I’m not too bad mate thank you! How are you? :)

[@thepugchugzchannel4511]

@@TheRetroFuture I’m doing great now that I hear that! Me and my family all watch you all the time. My dad, mom, brother and sister all mod game boys and love collecting retro tech. It actually started with you! So thanks so much for getting us into this hobby! There’s a little shop by me and my family that sells DS shells in a bin, I don’t know if they are real or not but I do know that there are some rare shells in the bin, only problem is they want 30 pounds a shell.

[@tufab3494]

@@thepugchugzchannel4511 damn that's cool

[@thepugchugzchannel4511]

@@tufab3494 thanks man!

[@PsychoCalamander]

@@thepugchugzchannel4511 Such a wholesome family activity :D :D

[@tbk_hanae]

"Komatsu Awazuten" (小松粟津店) seems to be the name/location of the McDonald's restaurant where that DSi was used (near the Awazu station in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture).

[@NoshAbroad]

came here to say this

[@AngyAtchu]

We've gone from fixing consoles.. to buying a unhealthy amount of consoles... and now McDonalds consoles.. There's just no limit to this man.

[@saxtonhale6029]

Well, if you were running out of options and desperate for answers, you'd book a flight to Japan too.

[@peterpuke2841]

For videogame and console history preservation it's pretty cool that these things were not completely vanished from existence and ended up in the hands of people who not only will preserve them but also document them for everyone, but I think that flipping hamburgers and making fries on a little screen is the last thing you want to do in your free time after being doing exactly the same the entire day, it makes me wonder why McDonald's eventually dropped the idea.

[@eggiboiroi]

WELL to be fair, the amount of times people will truly hate their job (me included!) and then go home and hop on a life sim game that is essentially either a second job or is a version of their real job and just have a blast. so while you’re absolutely correct, this might have been their train of thought when making it! and they probably SHOULD have made this eventually available for public purchase to help out once it seemed like things were going sideways, like just make it a special collaboration bundle where you get the ds and the game for a certain price (because it certainly seems like you can play other ds games on it!)

[@OfficialSparklyPig]

I worked in a McDonald's in New Mexico, USA in 2005, I was trained on a standard windows computer. The software was not similar to this in any way, I don't recall exactly what it was but I think it was a series of instructional live-action videos. I never saw or heard of these until a few years ago when I saw the video of the guy finding the codes.

[@theextremeanimator4721]

O._.O

[@theextremeanimator4721]

O_o

[@theextremeanimator4721]

o_O

[@williamharris8367]

For those collectors who do not read Japanese, there are unconfirmed reports that this hardware and training software was also used in Quebec, Canada. (Of course it would probably be in French, but that is easier to translate into English.) I have not personally seen any proof of this, so I do not know if it is true.

[@Damaj301damaj]

Quebec people also speak english, so its probably multilingual

[@williamharris8367]

Quebecois living in urban areas will probably have some ability to communicate in English; those in smaller communities rather less so. Point-a-calle (sp?) is definitely not the same as Montreal... Some people will refuse to speak English purely for political reasons -- I once had a shopkeeper insist on speaking to me in French even though I was buying an English-language newspaper. I fully understood him (and I responded in French), but he was making a point.

[@professor4202]

@@williamharris8367 "Some people will refuse to speak English purely for political reasons -- I once had a shopkeeper insist on speaking to me in French even though I was buying an English-language newspaper. I fully understood him (and I responded in French), but he was making a point." this is the exact reason why the rest of Canada would love to see those pretentious idiots leave. General Wolfe should have burned quebec city after his victory on the plains of abraham. canada would be sooooo much better for it.

[@tufab3494]

This is simply the most amazing moment of this channel's history. The freakin legendary McDonalds DSi... Damn... Next step is to get the original cartridge lol Keep up the good job G! Greetings from Brazil

[@TheRetroFuture]

Very damn cool ey!

[@tufab3494]

@@TheRetroFuture damn I've just edited my comment and lost the heart lol 😂🤦🏽‍♂️💀 Anyways glad you managed to get your hands on that, you truly deserve it 🙌🏽

[@tufab3494]

@Dan's Retro Collection that would be cool

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Yes sir, also hello brazil

[@godisacatgirl]

Fun Fact: In the GBC there was a game called "McDonalds Monogatari: Honobono Tenchou Ikusei", it was an adventure game where you worked on McDonalds and had to flip burgers, run the cash machine, etc. It had a town to "explore" and you had your own house too.

[@omarmontassir4199]

Ibfo = info

[@METALMAN4Wii]

The final level will be fixing the ice cream machine no one has ever beaten it before I hear?

[@pr9334]

As of why you didn’t just throw the ROM onto a NDS Flashcart, I’m beyond confused. But nice to see that the box was regular.

[@thijsvanuffelen5843]

There are roms of this game

[@richarddukard8989]

@@thijsvanuffelen5843 he's saying you can play the rom on the DS

[@Serafino97]

I don't make comments... Like ever. But seriesly came here to say the same. Do I need to send him a r4 card? Lmao

[@tufab3494]

@@Serafino97 who in the hell would exploit this DS bruh...

[@chich-ai]

@@tufab3494 someone wanting to play the game?

[@ajfromca]

I worked at McDonald’s some 20 years ago. Near the end of my ten year the got a training computer. I was the back end lead and the new general manager we had (he did not last long) really did not like me. He pretty much locked me in the office going over the computer training over and over hoping I would screw up so he could demote me.

[@slimanity35]

The most hilarious thing about this is that it was probably setting in a drawer of some ex McDonalds employee collecting dust while they were completely oblivious to it’s value

[@BigRigCreates]

I'm planning on turning my McDonald's touchscreen table into the biggest DS in the world. Could I reference clips of this video when I release my own video of the project? Just seems fitting.

[@BigRigCreates]

Also congrats on tracking this rare DS down

[@krzbrew]

Elliott, I would doubt McDonalds employees would put their devices anywhere near the food (or in the food) ...

[@Sno_mando]

I like to imagine some employee was making a burger and was like “wait I forget what’s next” And then just opens up their dsi and plops it down on the grill to watch the instructions haha.

[@Lucie-R2R_Happiness]

Naw naw have you worked in fast food? While someone's not going to put the device in the food someone could easily set down the device on a surface near food forget about it and comeback. It's totally possible to catch grease stains from the clothes to the hands. It's the same thing with headsets.

[@Sno_mando]

@@Lucie-R2R_Happiness I have not had the pleasure of working somewhere so greasy, so no haha. How bad is it in the back there?

[@pugbeast-jf2nl]

I used to work at a McDonald’s, it’s nostalgic to see the routine on the training program. And the McDonald’s M pattern on fries is an actual thing. They also did it for chocolate dressing on shakes and whatnot

[@TomGreen99]

Nick Robinson goes to Japan to find one. Elliot Coll just buys one on Sendico.

[@betatalk64]

This is truly amazing. I haven't watched your vids in a while, but I heard you were going through a rough time. I wanted to show my support by watching again, and I'm thrilled to hear you've picked up the rarest ds avaliable, cheers Eliot!

[@piratebear3126]

RE: the scarring on the box: I’ve seen removing labels do that kind of damage to ink on the box. Possibly some kind of shipping or inventory control label, although I’m pretty sure that grease could cause a similar pattern. No way of telling without psychic powers or a time machine.

[@devbat4638]

Yeah, I was thinking the same regarding the labels. Seen similar damage from packing tape on corrugated paperboard. It even has those "lines" that the material is made of, on the box.

[@tufab3494]

probally a sticker that was used by MCDonalds to keep track on them

[@kanedaku]

@mario mash band Reported for spam.

[@Danny.._]

6:02 that komatsu awazuten is the name of the specific branch where that dsi was used. you can google "マックドナルド 小松粟津店" to find the mcdonalds page for it or see photos of it on google maps

[@willalderson]

Always loving your content, bud. Managed to snag a few more Game Boys to mod this last week for a fun weekend project. Hope you manage to get your bike up and running again soon!

[@RagManXX]

Very nice. Congratulations. Hope this is a sign of things turning around for you in life and more stuff going your way!

[@mbradfield53]

Hi Elliot. I was suggested to you by Tronicsfix as he repaired one

[@TheSmartOjus]

This is such a cool find! It would be such a cool idea to ask real McDonalds employees about this game and even let them play it to see if it is similar to what they do at the restaurants! :D

[@ahkflakka]

McDonald’s Employee here and from what I’ve seen at least, yes it is!

[@TR-kg7lh]

Love your videos, brother! I hope all is well. Keep up all the great work! That McDonald's DSi is such an amazing piece of history. I'm super happy you got one to add to the collection of this amazing little system. I got myself a Japanese import DSi and I absolutely love it!

[@rajvinder89]

This is crazy, I never thought MickeyD's and Nintendo would ever team up for a special product like this. Not surprised in the least that it was in Japan though.

[@haythamalexander]

Amazing. Using a high-end proprietary, limited-release tech with a tiny screen to explain simplistic physical tasks is probably the model definition of an “overkill”. Complete waste and a great piece of history to preserve.

[@ChunkySteveo]

Jesus wept..! Buy that lad an iron 🤣👍🏻

[@garychamley3095]

Hahaha that comment creased me up. Ironing obviously not top of the list in Elliots house.

[@lloydmeadors]

McDonald's (マクドナルド 小松粟津店) It's the store name, it's the store (店) in komatsu, in the awazu area

[@nitroxidious]

Has it been confirmed whether Nintendo endorsed this or not? From the plain box, it looks like McDonalds just got a bunch of black DSs and applied their logo themselves.

[@DerelictCountry]

If only Nick Robinson hadn't covered this like a year before lol

[@Anna_Rae]

I really hope things get sorted out with your bike. You looked so heartbroken and I can’t begin to imagine what you’re going through. Love the videos, I hope your life takes a more positive turn 💝

[@madif9147]

this is such a cool part of gaming history! glad to see you making videos regularly, Elliot!

[@isquirtmilkfrommyeye]

I have one of these. In fact, I almost had two. I was searching the same time Nick Robinson was without knowing it. I won an auction on eBay but it got lost in the mail. I had to wait another year before finding the one I have today. Mine actually does have some pictures on it and two games but I can’t tell what they are because they’re in Japanese. The pictures aren’t of McDonalds though. They’re of a couple of kids and a few of some flowers. I’m guessing they’re the family of the employe who ended up taking the system home after they stopped using it in store.

[@ichderfisch_]

Cooking Mama Deluxe. Dinner at McDonalds

[@09goatboy36]

I’m glad that you are back, and not telling us some bad news this time! This year has been rough for you.

[@09goatboy36]

Oh, by the way, do you have the ROM?

[@doordieace5high]

It actually would have been awesome if they had, say, a contest where you could have won a McDonald's DS. Maybe they could have made a certain amount for restaurants and given the others away as part of prize packages for winners. Even could cross-promote and have the prize packs be half Nintendo stuff, half stuff from McDonald's and then pick a good amount of winners that get at least the DS.

[@Otto500206]

*DSi

[@d_b_n_]

amazing content, as always! you rock, Elliott

[@phazonlord0098]

5:19 That's not the DSi stylus, you can see it's not long enough, pobably it's from a DS Lite. Some poor worker must have lost it while practising.

[@Riz2336]

I guess how these ended up in collectors hands is people jacked them from the restaurant and flipped them

[@daserfomalhaut9809]

More importantly than the DS, I hope you're doing better. That bike video was super depressing. :c

[@jordankomakech5137]

I've been working at McDonald's for 20 months and Fries is not as easy as everyone thinks your on feet and you have the manager or front counter yelling at you what they're taking.

[@jordankomakech5137]

And the fryer is annoying as hell 🙄

[@theextremeanimator4721]

1:05 good to hear anything back from you [mcdonalds-san!]

[@justajad2809]

Nick will be happy seeing this.

[@omegacloud20]

McDonalds in Japan is actually really good quality food from what I've heard. They seem to take it very seriously.

[@RocketoPunchee]

They probably treat their employees right, living in a third world country, the very reason some fast food chains are not the best, or at least less than the expected quality is because of overworked, less-than-living-wage employees.

[@neodido4906]

i confirm . better quality than in France with japanese style burgers that i love ^^

[@kanedaku]

@@RocketoPunchee How the fuck do you believe Japan is third world? Watch Back to the Future; there was a time when everything great was made in Japan.

[@RocketoPunchee]

@@kanedaku I've never ever said anything like that, do you have any form of language skills whatsoever? I did a comparison of Japan vs third world countries... go get some reading comprehension before accusing with zero understanding.

[@kanedaku]

@@RocketoPunchee Wrong person to say has zero language skills. Just because you say something doesn't make it true. Please review your witterings and come back. Otherwise stay quiet.

[@jaredrobinson3763]

Way to go man so exciting! Keep up the good work! If you see this and want a new project you should check out the GBA SP Slab. I built mine from Humble Bazooka and it's a fantastic build turning the SP into a Gameboy pocket with the cartridge facing up.

[@cryingsu]

Hello, Quick correction each game has its own password since Nick dumped his game we can only use his password (unless if you have a different copy)

[@tamzin00]

Me and my sis watched Nick’s video and it always absolutely blew our minds and now it’s been a whole year since we watched Nick’s video and we’re now back here watching yours 😆

[@xSKlPS]

"I bought this retro iron. Here's how not to use it"

[@aromaticsnail]

You should try to get a 3ds Louvre edition. A visitor can rent one and use it as a guide

[@chipsdonut1]

You could of downloaded the rom with the save to a flash cart would of been a more authentic experience kind of. idk but many thanks for you sharing such a rare item for the world to see.

[@skyde72]

YOO nice one dude! Now at least 3 people have the mcdonalds DSi!

[@Punmaster9001]

Considering that has to be pretty accurate to how workers have to prepare food, I think that game would go over big with people, seeing how many cooking simulators are out there, and how many people have been playing them

[@sgmc420]

Hey Elliott! Did some research and found that the translation may have been off for Komatsu Awazuten! There's a Japanese McDonalds in japan called the "McDonald's Komatsu Awazu" and its #88 out of #263 in japan! hope that clears some stuff up, take care, and I hope everything has been going well recently as we know its been tough. Keep your head up, and stay strong. From The Retro Future community, we love you!

[@KeeganMartin]

Came here to say the same thing. -Ten is the suffix for a store in Japanese so "Komatsu Awazuten" is the "Komatsu Awazu" store

[@PIXELPORTABLE]

Elliot, I'm loving it, nice find! A Great showpiece!!

[@SATOhara3173]

Great find, thanks for the documentation on video, good one as always.

[@Bezi77777]

Fun fact about nintendo zone: every dsi really has nintendo zone on them, but you can only start it with hacks (such as unlounch)

[@petercorcoran5372]

I’m sure it can’t be as much fun as making burgers In Parappa the Rapper !

[@AgentOrange96]

6:24 Not just any machine company, but the company that built what would later be transformed into the most influential bulldozer to ever grace the streets of Granby Colorado!

[@mjcox242]

eCDP stands for, electronic crew development program basically it's a DS game to develop the crews skills.

[@yeismeload]

I bet Burger King employees got a knock off fake DS for training

[@mini-_]

Now we know why the ice cream machine is always broken, instead of fixing it they are just playing Mario Kart!

[@Kionic]

Seeing it emulated means theoretically you could possibly mod the dsi to play it on it, oooorrrr put it on a micro as on a ds cartridge without modding it to emulate it on the system, bassically what I’m saying is, it is still possible to play it on the actual hardware and I’d love to see you do that in a video some day!!

[@anon_y_mousse]

I just watched that Nick Robinson video a few days ago and now this. This deserves at least two likes for sniffing the console, but alas, I can only give one. I am curious what that device was that you used to emulate a DS with.

[@DarkLordPrime]

"Even BETTER than Mama!"

[@generalfeat]

First measure, then drop; After shake fries every 1 min to get constistancy; Remove fries, dump into fry repository, apply saly, mix fries, Serve. I spent 8 years working at wendys.

[@gadgetmadlad6691]

With it being a McDonald's product would of thought they would of gone with XL lol

[@nirabata3411]

ah yes, the legendary McDSi

[@Broccolie]

I am so insanely jealous of you rn

[@MisterWolfen]

This is so damn cool 😅😅 thanks for continuing to put up such great videos bud, watching your channel got me into modding a gameboy recently and it was a super cool experience ☺️☺️

[@shulkyboi]

Elliot keep up the great work!

[@ericvokes4109]

as someone who works at maccies that does look like a grease mark, you see it a lot on the cardboard boxes used to store the fries, chicken and burgers.

[@urukadooedwards7637]

We need to pitch in and get this Man some Macdonald's!! He's craving it:)

[@Cruznick06]

I think my DSi has wear in the same area from how I held it. Going to have to find it to check.

[@sugott4983]

Hey man, I've really been enjoying your videos in the last months but I've just noticed that your logo is actually you sitting at your desk when I saw it in the intro! I always thought it was an animal crossing head. Maybe you should consider changing it to the version in the intro? Nice video anyways!

[@whisperingwooper1763]

Omg whattt using a dsi to do training is crazy! It’s insane how many obscure Nintendo consoles there are. I feel like this training wouldn’t work well like it’s better to just do hands on experience rather then a game.

[@jinpaul11]

This is like Cooking Mama, McDonalds Edition.

[@JerkBender]

Looking at that name Komatsu awazuten, seems to be the name of McDonald’s store that used to own this dsi. Komatsu (Komatsu city/ Komatsu-shi) Awazu (the name of the store) ten (means store in Japanese). I wasn’t able to locate the exact store on google maps (possibly closed down by now) but you can look up awazu machi (machi is town) in Komatsu city. Pretty cool stuff 😁👍

[@jasonhedtke659]

Anyone else want a rom hack of ecdp where you play the training games but it continues with different sandwiches, switches to fries/hash browns, and maybe custom orders? Like it would be cool to have a mode be implemented to the game to casually make orders and play the training games until you end the gaming session or have a "shift" like experience (I'm more thinking like how in FNAF you gotta survive til 6am mechanic) Probably just me wanting to see this 😂

[@merman1974]

Intriguing video, there is a lot of potential in using interactive software (like a video game) to train people. But the moment has to be the McDonalds trainer in his little hat.

[@stephentidwell2244]

People tend to overlook or forget that the prep surfaces at McDonald’s are heated

[@thijsvanuffelen5843]

Did you know that there is a speed run category of this game

[@kellycarroll6829]

so much fun! thank you for sharing.

[@shamecat]

Please try the flash cart with the training software on the actual DS

[@Tiger_Cub0]

On the software they forgot the step of “punching the burger to make it flat”

[@_NovaTheFurry]

"there is no smell of mcdonalds which is really disappointing"

[@existenceispain_geekthesiren]

Ameture hours, Nick Robinson got TWO

[@andykishore]

The rare DSI model right here.

[@axpuser671]

Nintendo Zone was used in McDonald's for a Training Game like this one but it was for kids.

[@CDRaff]

I wonder if this is where they got the idea for Eat, Serve, Delicious?

[@andywest5773]

This is accurate enough that I'm having weird flashbacks to my time working at McDonald's over two decades ago. I can still hear the fry vats beeping incessantly. Will somebody take the freaking fries out already? I'm taking an order here!

[@babenberg]

The t-shirt took all my attention. Negatively. There is no need or excuse to show careless. You are your image here.

[@TubeYouGuy]

I was thinking the same thing. The shirt was driving me crazy.

[@soto9128]

"When we flip it often… you can see there's not a slice of cheese inside. Very disappointing." Hehehe. Would have been a good one. XD

[@DeathQueen63]

Careful it doesn’t get confiscated mate, I honestly wouldn’t take it in there.

[@FunkyStudios]

Finally, the Elliot and Nick Robinson crossover in spirit form

[@Flafex]

I felt that t-shirt was kept in a bottle, beautiful vid, we love u

[@bluespartan076]

Gotta do the Hilton hotel psp next!

[@materialfishFI]

He can't go to McDonald's in person so he wondered what it smelt like

[@ioNicholas]

Hello, sorry about your bike. Cool DSi!

[@TheRetroFuture]

Thank you!

[@SpikerDragon95]

Hey everyone, here someone from Costa Rica who used Sendico, they work great and cheap, thats all enjoy the video