{"id":1690,"date":"2025-08-25T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:43:33","slug":"japans-national-library-says-game-key-cards-are-not-eligible-for-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/japans-national-library-says-game-key-cards-are-not-eligible-for-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#039;s National Library Says Game-Key Cards Are Not Eligible For Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gee, ya think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndl.go.jp\/en\/\">National Diet Library<\/a> (or &#8216;NDL&#8217;, for short) is one of the biggest libraries in the world and, from the year 2000, began to obtain video game CDs and cartridges for preservation purposes.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202508\/48598\">Famitsu<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-switch-2-game-key-cards-not-eligible-for-preservation-by-japans-national-diet-library-officials-say\/\">Automaton<\/a>), however, the library does not consider the Switch 2&#8217;s Game-Key Cards as &#8216;proper&#8217; physical media and therefore will not be accepting them into its 9,600-strong catalogue of game titles.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/japans-national-library-says-game-key-cards-are-not-eligible-for-preservation\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, ya think? Japan&#8217;s National Diet Library (or &#8216;NDL&#8217;, for short) is one of the biggest libraries in the world and, from the year 2000, began to obtain video game CDs and cartridges for preservation purposes. According to an article from Famitsu (thanks, Automaton), however, the library does not consider the Switch 2&#8217;s Game-Key Cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}