Sorry, a literal cosmic ion ray boost to your Super Mario 64 speed-run only happens once in a trillion

The niche competitive eSport of video game speed-running is a pretty fascinating and intricate medium, with countless variations and hacks to optimize performances down to the literal millisecond. Often, there are detailed strategies to induce the quickest times possible, but there are also plenty of instances of blind luck aiding players. One such situation occurred back in 2013 during a speed-run match of Super Mario 64. Check a clip of the glitch below. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to know the fine details of the situation to understand the surprise from the player.)
The situation was so baffling to veteran Super Mario 64 speed-runners (yes, a real thing), that one prominent player, pannenkoek12, even offered a $1000 reward to anyone who could solve the “ceiling upwarp” mystery. For a while, nobody could naturally replicate the phenomenon, but after some investigation, people realized the answer was so obvious this whole time:
You see, cosmic ion particles from the depths of outer space often rain down on Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a shower of protons and neutrons that occasionally affects electronic devices they encounter. In this case, at ion shower allegedly passed through DOTA_Teabag’s Nintendo 64 console, causing a one-in-a-trillion glitch. Duh!