LETS PLAY sm64 11: Frosty frosty Winter

LETS PLAY sm6411: Frosty frosty Winter is the name of a supposedly lost YouTube video uploaded by "coolmario65". The authentic upload date of the video is unknown, but many recollect watching it in times during 2009 to 2011.

According to recollections, the video is the eleventh episode in a Let's Play series by "coolmario65". The video was notable for being the shortest in the series - being less than a minute long - and taking place in a level not known to be in Super Mario 64, called "Frosty Frosty Winter".

While the level "Frosty Frosty Winter" has never been discovered by anybody in the Super Mario 64 community, some people regard this as one of the earliest online documentations of personalisation. However, the authenticity of this video is dubious.

Description
The video has yet to be retrieved through internet archiving, however many users have come to recollect their memories of the video.

The common consensus is that the video involves the player unlocking the second floor of the castle, and discovering a painting that shouldn't usually be there. Descriptions of what the painting were are inconsistent, but typically it is described as being a white blizzard. Upon jumping into the painting, the player was warped to a level called "Frosty Frosty Winter", which appeared to be an endlessly spanning white plane with a dense white fog and snow. As Mario ran around, his health would gradually decrease and appear to grow blue in colouration. At some point, the player stops moving Mario and allows him to shiver on the floor, before he falls over and dies, in an animation similar to that of the shocked death animation.

Other aspects of the video are debated on. Some insist that Mario wards off icy Bullies as he runs through the level, whilst others insist that it was purely empty. Some people claim that a slowed down version of Cool, Cool Mountain's music plays in the video, while some claim that there is no music whatsoever.

An interesting bit of information that stems from this video is the video appears to have no subtitles. In other "coolmario65" uploads, there are subtitles written using Windows Movie Maker to guide the audience through his Let's Play. However in this video, there apparently was no subtitles whatsoever.

Authenticity
While a small group of people insist on the video being real, other people seem to dispute the video's existence. For one, "coolmario65" seems to no longer exist with no trace online left at all. Whether this is because his channel was deleted or otherwise is unknown, but it leads many to believe that the video itself is a made-up troll.

Others believe that the video is in fact real, but what happened it was entirely faked. Christmas of 2011 saw the release of Super Mario 64: Star Road, a ROM hack with custom levels, meaning that the ROM hacking tools needed to make a custom level this simple were available at the time. Additionally, the eerie lack of editing in the video lead some to believe it was intentionally staged by "coolmario65".

In a similar vein, some people dispute the video for the sense that it seems to contradict all known knowledge of anomalous Super Mario 64 behaviour. This includes the anomalous nature happening on an emulator, and the level "Frosty Frosty Winter" never appearing in anybody else's copy of Super Mario 64, and the naming scheme being rather basic and inconsistent with Super Mario 64.

Speculation
The implications for Frosty Frosty Winter imply that there was a freezing mechanic intended for Super Mario 64 at some point. Based on the video, Mario would slowly lose health as his health bar slowly turned a frozen blue colour. After time, Mario would soon die from frostbite, in an animation similar to that of the shocked death animation. How Mario would save himself from freezing over is unknown.

Some people speculate that Frosty Frosty Winter, if it does exist, was discovered in an unfinished form by "coolmario65". This is granted by the lack of any notable geometry or objects in the area. In the code for Super Mario 64, there is an unused weather condition called "Blizzard" that has a faster snowfall animation. This might have been intended for Frosty Frosty Winter.