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by BenoitEssiambre 2238 days ago
The most shocking part of this story is still that Nintendo keeps all its code in CVS. CVS!!!
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ginko 2238 days ago
For game code written in the mid 90s I'm actually pleasantly surprized. I would have expected just a bunch of copied folders with weekly snapshots.
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grawprog 2238 days ago
It wasn't Nintendo's CVS it was BroadOn's CVS. It was a third party Chinese company Nintendo allowed to produce Nintendo compatible hardware in China. They had access to a bunch of sdks and the source codes for the system to develop their hardware.
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fl0wenol 2238 days ago
It was probably iGware's or Acer's CVS when it was hacked, if I'd have to guess.

RouteFree->BroadOn->iGWare->Acer Cloud Technology (as of 2011, now just a business unit)

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