Jefftastic's Documentation

In a similar vein to Greenio's Lost Tapes, Youtuber jefftastic has created a series of Super Mario 64 videos based around documenting and demonstrating phenomena in video form. Unlike Greenio's tapes which are presented as found footage, jefftastic's videos are more of a present-day documentation. All of jefftastic's videos on the matter have been cataloged in a playlist called Super Mario 64 documentation.

Synopsis

 * See Jefftastic's Documentation/Videos for detailed descriptions of the videos.

jefftastic stumbled across his father's old Super Mario 64 cartridge when going through his attic, and began recording his playthrough once he realised that strange phenomena was going on in his copy. He encountered anomalies such as the White-eyed Chomp, the Bowser Room and an altered version of Whomp's Fortress called Flying Fortress.

Events escalated when jefftastic discovered that the Castle Courtyard had been changed into the Castle Garden. He found a dark room with a Toad in it, who urged Mario to go and save Princess Peach and the Toads from the castle walls, and begged Mario to not let him die. The dark room led to a door, which crashed the first time he tried to enter it.

jefftastic would later try to enter it again, and it led to what appeared to be a prototype of the castle foyer. He found an entrance to Delicious Cake, a barren stage with only a large cake for Mario to scale. Princess Peach calls out to Mario and begs him to use the power of the Power Star to help him save her and the Toads. Mario collects the star, and after the screen fades out imagery of the Peach painting appears. The game appears to be talking to jefftastic here, begging him to not shut off the game before being cut off by the title screen re-emerging.

jefftastic later updates that the cartridge he had just been using was fried and unable to be used anymore, and says that he will buy a new copy. When he does, he finds similar anomalies to what he first discovered such as the White-eyed Chomp, Aquarium Limbo and Cold, Cold Crevasse.

In another video, jefftastic claims that he's been in contact with another person to help him dump the ROM of his father's cartridge, the original cartridge he was playing for the first few videos. It's taking a while due to anti-piracy measures within the ROM being set off when attempting to dump it, as jefftastic informs his audience that dumping the ROM will take time. The latter half of the video has images interspliced within as well as the text "sleep well". These additions do not appear to be intentionally added by jefftastic.

During the wait to dump his ROM, jefftastic released a tape that his father shared with him. This tape features an early advertisement of Super Mario 64 with the "Super Mario 64 Rap", before getting cut off halfway through. The video fades into an ominous area of the castle with a pink star statue, while the video instructs the audience to "LOOK FOR THE 5 SIGNS".

Trivia

 * jefftastic is one of the first people to catch a major instance of Dynamic Level Rearrangement on camera. He is also the first to document Flying Fortress as well.