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</gallery>'''Acer Cloud Technology''' (their acquisitions formerly known as '''iGware''', '''BroadOn''', and '''RouteFree''') is a software engineering company that contributed to hardware, software, and online platform development for several of Nintendo's consoles. It was launched in April 2000 as RouteFree, and was subsequently renamed to BroadOn in 2003 and iGware in 2009. The company merged with Acer in 2011 with a $320 million deal and became Acer Cloud Computing. It was a privately held startup company, with 50 employees at its peak. The company was founded by a Chinese-American entrepreneur named [[Wei Yen]] who had previously worked on the N64 and GameCube hardware development teams at [[Silicon Graphics]] and [[ArtX]] respectively.
</gallery>'''Acer Cloud Technology''' (formerly known as '''iGware''', '''BroadOn''', and '''RouteFree''') is a software engineering company that contributed to hardware, software, and online platform development for several of Nintendo's consoles. It was launched in April 2000 as RouteFree, and was subsequently renamed to BroadOn in 2003 and iGware in 2009. The company merged with Acer in 2011 with a $320 million deal and became Acer Cloud Computing. It was a privately held startup company, with 50 employees at its peak. The company was founded by a Chinese-American entrepreneur named [[Wei Yen]] who had previously worked on the N64 and GameCube hardware development teams at [[Silicon Graphics]] and [[ArtX]] respectively.
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== Contributions to Nintendo products ==
== Contributions to Nintendo products ==
BroadOn's influence on Nintendo products dates as far back as 2002, when development on the [[iQue Player]] begun; at this point, BroadOn still used the RouteFree name. However, prior to this, BroadOn's founder [[Wei Yen]] had contributed to the hardware development of the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo GameCube, which is why BroadOn was selected by Nintendo for new hardware platform development. BroadOn contributed heavily to the hardware and software development of the iQue Player, creating its SDK and e-commerce services. In April 2018, the scene release group SUXXORS released the iQue Player SDK and plain-text iQue Player titles, marking the second known leak of internal BroadOn files (the first was [https://github.com/iversonjimmy/acer_cloud_wifi_copy this leak]).
BroadOn's influence on Nintendo products dates as far back as 2002, when development on the [[iQue Player]] begun; at this point, BroadOn still used the RouteFree name. However, prior to this, BroadOn's founder [[Wei Yen]] had contributed to the hardware development of the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo GameCube, which is why BroadOn was selected by Nintendo for new hardware platform development. BroadOn contributed heavily to the hardware and software development of the iQue Player, creating its SDK and e-commerce services. In April 2018, the scene release group SUXXORS released the iQue Player SDK and plain-text iQue Player titles, marking the first known leak of internal BroadOn files.
BroadOn went on to develop much of the Wii's software infrastructure and some of its hardware, providing the [[IOP]] (commonly known as "Starlet") unit inside the Wii's GPU package as well as its software environment, [[IOS]]. This provides the backbone for most of the Wii's features which were not present in the GameCube, such as wireless connectivity and flash memory access. BroadOn also developed most of the Wii's e-commerce infrastructure, with [[Wii Shop Channel]] and [[Nintendo DSi Shop]] pages containing references to Acer Cloud Technology as they had been updated to extend their copyright up to 2014.
BroadOn went on to develop much of the Wii's software infrastructure and some of its hardware, providing the [[IOP]] (commonly known as "Starlet") unit inside the Wii's GPU package as well as its software environment, [[IOS]]. This provides the backbone for most of the Wii's features which were not present in the GameCube, such as wireless connectivity and flash memory access. BroadOn also developed most of the Wii's e-commerce infrastructure, with [[Wii Shop Channel]] and [[Nintendo DSi Shop]] pages containing references to Acer Cloud Technology as they had been updated to extend their copyright up to 2014.
BroadOn contributed to the DSi's e-commerce environment as well, although their role in the DSi's overall software infrastructure is unknown, but the system works similar to the Wii.
Some of BroadOn's code related to the [[ES]] [[IOS]] module was included as part of a project they did as Acer Cloud, and was subsequently published on GitHub, exposing a small piece of IOS source code as well as some unused features. [https://github.com/iversonjimmy/acer_cloud_wifi_copy]
BroadOn contributed to the DSi's e-commerce environment, which uses a similar system to that of the Wii.
BroadOn had some influence in the development of the 3DS' and Wii U's software/e-commerce infrastructure (as iGware), although it is unknown to what extent they were involved due to the 2011 Acer merger.
BroadOn had some influence in the development of the 3DS' and Wii U's software/e-commerce infrastructure (as iGware), although it is unknown to what extent they were involved due to the 2011 Acer merger.
== Security Issues ==
== Security Issues ==
BroadOn and Nintendo made several security mistakes in the software which they developed for the Wii and other platforms. One such example is the [[Trucha Bug]].
BroadOn made several security mistakes in the software which they developed for the iQue and Wii. One such example is the [[Trucha Bug]]. They made a number of critical security mistakes in the iQue Player's software, as well as introducing several security flaws into the Wii's [[IOS]].
== Domain ==
== Domain ==
