Anyway, I remember reading about how hard the emulator guys were working on emulating brutal encryption on certain standup arcade titles. That seemed effective. My guess is, if a console had 100% encrypted content on their distribution media, and all decryption was done on-chip (no decrypted data ever went over the pins on the chips), that would be pretty effective :)
It certainly worked for the Atari Jaguar. Emulators and homebrew games were impossible until somebody cleverly broke the encryption using jaglink'd development systems running a brute-force technique. It took almost 9 months, if memory serves. (Ironically, the Jaguar rights were released to the public shortly thereafter :)
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