Depending on the implementation of the copy protection scheme, it
could takes from 10 minutes to hack (as you said) to months, to
possibly never (if there's not enough interest). It's all dependant
on how it's done. Of course, I would think Nintendo may be the one
first to attempt to crack it... which may be a bad sign... But nobody
knows how the protection might be done, so argument either way is
futile. Besides, if anyone here wants to take a look at the endless
discussion of this type of copy-protection, they can see everything
almost everyone has to say by going to the yahoo group gp32dev and
searching for the string "encryption". But at the very least, I say
it's worth a try. I mean, that's all I'm saying. Let's just try it,
and support Visoly so that they do look at it seriously.

--- In gbadev@y..., "Markus" <markus@p...> wrote:
> > ConsumerX inserts the cart into his GBA, and powers on.
> > The game code checks the cartridge it is being played on for the
> > unique ID number it was compiled to check for.
> > If the cart's unique ID number is the same as the game's unique
ID
> > number, the game starts.
> > Else, the game will lock up.
>
> takes about 10 minutes to be cracked ... at the max ...