That should already be quite doable without any bootroms. Hell the "bigbluemenu" that everyone was using for so long is nothing but a dev "rom" with a banner and (maybe) encryption/signing swap.
But at first, it was a dev .cia, someone took it, put it into a dev unit and decrypted the cia, then reencrypted it on a retail system. I mean we would be able to decrypt dev roms on the computer without a dev unit.
Which would make things easier and cheaper
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