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Regardless of NBC status, the Birth Certificate is a must. It is the cornerstone document of Obamas status.
If it states that Obama Sr. is his Father, then he is not qualified no matter where he was born. This document is key no matter where the arguments lead.

Obama published a book in 1995 entitled “Dreams from my Father” which discussed his relationship with Obama Sr. in great detail. His state of Hawaii issued Certification of Live Birth clearly states that Obama Sr. is his father. Both of the newspaper announcements of his birth that appeared in the August 13 and August 14, 1961 editions of the Honolulu Star-Bulliten and the Honolulu Advertiser name Barack Hussein Obama as his father.
And yet in the only actual adjudication of a lawsuit regarding his eligibility to be president, the original trial court and the Indiana Court of Appeals found that he is eligible for the presidency.

“Based upon the language of Article II, Section 1, Clause 4 and the guidance provided by [the US Supreme Court in the 1898 decision in US v.] Wong Kim Ark, we conclude that persons born within the borders of the United States are “natural born Citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents. Just as a person “born within the British dominions [was] a natural-born British subject” at the time of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, so too were those “born in the allegiance of the United States natural-born citizens.”—Indiana Court of Appeals, “Ankeny et. al. v The Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels,” Nov. 12, 2009

That the birth certificate may identify someone else to have been Obama’s father is another twist. First, we take Obama at his word. Obama has never said he was a natural born citizen, and his web site identified him as a “native born U.S. citizen.” A Native born U.S. citizen may be born in the U.S. of alien citizens - an anchor baby - or born in the U.S. of one citizen parent - a citizen, and probably the case with Obama.

Obama presumably signed a document avowing Constitutional eligibility in Hawaii and Arizona, but those would conflict with his having been “native born”. Since they are claimed (and required) in only two states, it remains to be seen whether Obama’s legal team hasn't already a contingency.

Because his books and public statements as well as the Kenyan government identify Obama II as the son of Obama I, and because he (or Bill Ayers) have described his discovery of his birth certificate among Toot’s belongings, he must be assumed to know who his father is. Knowing he was ineligible, running for and attaining the office knowing he was ineligible, but later discovering that he was born of another father raises some messy legal issues. The intent to defraud is just a naive guess. That Obama has told us he doesn't believe the Constitution is relevant might also be used, but Obama took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.