Cool, Cool Mountain (beta) is an area in B3313.
Description[]
The area is similar to the vanilla Cool, Cool Mountain, with a compact bottom floor as opposed to being separated into two halves with few transport possibilities. Additionally, there are now three baby penguins. At the middle of the mountain, there are a few checkerboard platforms arranged in a row, which lead to an item box. There is also a lake of icy-cold water at the bottom, with pillars sticking out of it.
Origins[]
This area is partially inspired by two images created by the Twitter/𝕏 account "totallyrealsm64"; ran by Annielogue, formerly known as Greenio. The rest of the layout appears to be original. The textures are mostly recreations of the ones seen in the Snow Slider beta level.
The music playing is an arrangement of "Cool, Cool Mountain" and "Bob-Omb Battlefield" from Super Mario 64. It is called "Snow Mountain (Unused)".
Stars[]
This area has 3 stars to collect:
- Giving the mother penguin her baby, stranded at the top of the mountain, rewards the player with a star.
- There is a star inside the item box at the end of the checkered platforms.
- At the bottom of the mountain, near the mother penguin, you can find a star on top of some rocks.
- (A2) Collecting the 8 Red Coins in the level rewards you with a star.
- (A2) There is a star located at the bottom of the mountain, near the mother penguin.
Warps[]
Leading here[]
- Vanilla Lobby: Enter the Cool, Cool Mountain painting.
- (0.9/1.0) Cabin's Snow Slide: Jump into the hole at the end of the slide.
Leading away[]
- (pre-0.9) Checkerboard: Jump into the item box at the end of the checkered platforms.
- (0.9/1.0) Cabin's Snow Slide: Jump into the hole at the beginning.
Version History[]
- v0.9
- Hole at beginning warps to Cabin's Snow Slide.
- Item box at end of checkered platforms no longer warps to Checkerboard
- v0.6.7
- Added Cool, Cool, Mountain (beta)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- One of the few areas with a star requirement, as the door in the Vanilla Lobby leading here still needs 3 stars to unlock.
- Attempting to drop the baby penguin off of the cliff will lead to the player being dropped off instead, usually leading to a death.
- The "Return a Baby Penguin to the Mother Penguin" star in Cool, Cool Mountain (beta) shares the same star ID as the "Bottom of the Mountain" star and the "Return a Baby Penguin to the Mother Penguin" star which are both in the Course 11 version of Snow Slide. However, the star in Cool, Cool Mountain (beta) is out of bounds and therefore can not be collected. Your only option to collect the star is by collecting one of the two stars in the Course 11 version of Snow Slide.
2 comments
Which version does the Star ID trivia note refer to? Is the out-of-bounds star still in the 1.0 version of this level? Is the "near the penguin" star exclusive to A2? I've been all around the bottom of the mountain and haven't seen it, so unless someone can come up with a more detailed explanation or some photos, I'm going to mark it as A2 and update the star counts.
Baby Penguin star is obtainable in the Unabandoned 1.0 Hotfix. The unabandoned version also has two additional obtainable stars. One is on top of the cliff formation near where the mama penguin is at the bottom of the mountain. The other is at the long jump section where the red coin star would be in vanilla, but it is replaced with an item box containing a star. There is also a slide section accessible via warp hole at the starting area of the mountain that leads to a primitive version of the mountain slide. At the bottom room is a Star hidden above the lower left corner.