A playable copy of PokéPark Fishing Rally DS has turned up, 20 years later 🎣
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A collector has a playable copy of PokéPark Fishing Rally DS, 20 years after the park-only event 🎣
Daniel Qudari showed IGN a working cartridge of the 2005 Download Play fishing game, and PSA has authenticated it.
Collector Daniel Qudari approached IGN with a working cartridge of PokéPark Fishing Rally DS, the fishing minigame guests at PokéPark in Nagoya, Japan, could wirelessly download to a Nintendo DS from May to September 2005. The game erased itself after 12 hours or when the handheld was turned off, and it had long been treated as lost. Qudari showed IGN that the cartridge can run the full game and send it to other DS systems through Download Play, and PSA has authenticated and encapsulated it. A separate development cartridge that appeared on eBay in July 2026 held event leaderboard data, and was not a confirmed playable copy of the game.
