Soul Extraction Program (Coolman's Interpretation)

The Soul Extraction Program is a program that, metaphorically, takes the player's soul and prevents them from playing the game.

The goal of the program is to stop the player from either emulating the game or cheating in it.

Behaviour
If the player is caught cheating, then the program will run.

The program will first give out a warning screen saying that the player is to stop cheating immediately, or else they will be punished accordingly.

Emulation check
If the player stops at this point, the program will dump the N64's memory and check for anything strange. If it finds that it is emulated, then it will punish the player regardless. If it finds that it is not, then it will stop running the program until cheating/an emulator is detected.

Punishment
If the player refuses to cheat/is found out to be using an emulator, then it will show an animation of Mario getting a star from his body removed by a crane coming from the ground/the walls/the sky, depending on where Mario is at that stage of the game, which is equivalent to someone getting their soul removed. Then, a screen will pop up saying "I am sorry Mario, but this player has been caught cheating/emulating the game! Your powers have been removed...".

At this point, the player would have lost all control of Mario.

If the player is still in the game, then the N64 will show a screen saying "Warning! Cheating or Emulating games is against the law! Please turn off your console now!". A countdown will then appear, counting down to 10 seconds.

After this, the game will simply crash if the player has not turned off the console after 10 seconds.

If the game is booted up again, it will simply crash again, causing the player to have a corrupt Cartridge/ROM.