eCrew Development Program

The game teaches the player how to cook and serve various McDonald's menu items and perform other restaurant tasks, and was used to train new restaurant employees. It features several game modes and features, including simulations of food preparation and customer interaction, quizzes, player profiles for employees and managers, and performance statistics. It was distributed in tandem with a separate game titled eSMART which aimed to train preexisting employees rather than new ones. Unlike the original eCDP game, eSMART only has one known owner,[2] and the ROM is not public.[3] Although the official "long name" for eSMART is unknown, many think it goes along the lines of "eStaff Management and Retraining Team".

The game had a budget of ¥200 million and was planned for use in all 3,700 McDonald's locations across Japan by the end of 2010,[4][5][6][7] to which it was distributed together with two McDonald's-skinned Nintendo DSi's.[8] It is unknown to which extent it was used and for how long.

A single copy of the game surfaced in September 2020 on an online auction,[9] which was sold to American YouTuber Nick Robinson. Robinson then uploaded the game cartridge's ROM to the Internet Archive on November 17 2020, alongside a self-created documentary detailing how he acquired it.[10][11][12] This was the first time the game was made publicly available. Currently, there are five people known that own this game: American YouTuber Nick Robinson, Reddit User Scgoodguy,[13] French YouTuber Coddy Trentuit, Twitter user XX_750000 and as of September 2012, a McDonald's collector posted pictures on the Nintendo High End Game Room Facebook page of all 3 games (eCDP, E Smart & E Smart 2.0) in his collection including 4 McDonald's DSI consoles. At this time only Nick Robinson, Coddy Trentuit and user XX_750000 have the password to enter the game.

On August 11th, 2021, three days after they obtained their copy, XX_750000 released the manual, as well as the box art, on their Twitter.[14]