Stupidest Zelda Moments?

Yeah, that's what I was speculating. But I just checked some FAQs and they all say there's an even number of HCPs. I made a thread on another message board to see if anyone can confirm this.

mighty_darknut wrote:There's 20 hearts in the GBA version—I'm not sure about the SNES version. This is the first I'm hearing about it.

Could be german… O:!

Yes, it is actually the German SNES version. Maybe that's why I always found max. exactly 20 HPs? But if I remember correctly, there were different versions of LttP. I also had a japanese rom titled "Zelda no Denetsu 1.2" (don't remember the exact spelling) where I also got exactly 20 HPs. Maybe they changed it from 1.0 or 1.1 to 1.2? Or maybe there are more HPs in the US release? Because I've been playing this game for 13 years now and I really don't know of any place in the overworlds or in any dungeon that I haven't visited yet :shrug:

I don't remember any moments I've had in one of Nintendo's Zelda games (ZC quests, maybe) that I would consider "stupid"; however, a stupid moment of my brother's comes to mind.

Anyone who has played OoT's Master Quest might remember the waterfall room before Dark Link where you hit a slightly hidden crystal switch to reveal a bunch of Hookshot points on the waterfall itself. You had to longshot to the correct point so that you land on another one; otherwise, you would fall to your death. Normally, you would think if you had no idea which one was the "correct one," you would try hookshoting every single one until you don't fall to your death.

My brother, on the other hand, would constantly hookshot the same points over and over again. I guess he thought you could hang onto them like you could with other points. After losing about 5+ hearts to pit falls (in that room alone), he finally asked me for the solution.

Most of my troubles were in LA. I had horrendus trouble with the Bottle Grotto's Master key. With that I tried exploring elsewhere and discovered the L1 dungeon glitch. With my Game Genie, I managed to get through almost the whole game without beating L2 or getting the Pegasus Boots.

Thinking there was quite a bit more to The Minish Cap.

Maybe I have a later version of LttP, but on my console I know I've gotten twenty heart containers in some American version of the game or another.

I'll have to get a listing of hcps as I only have 19 hearts to see if my copy has the full 20 or not...

Are you sure you didn't just miss one somewhere?

You had to miss one. I know there are 20 full hearts in the game. Did you get the one from the treasure chest game in the Dark World town? You have to keep on playing the game until you get it (the one where you can open two chests at a time). It's random so many people either don't get it or don't even know it's there. Probably the most frequently missed piece.

I asked on GameFAQs and two people there told me there's 20 total hearts.

Well, one of the games has an uneven amount of HCP. unless all the stories about it were made up :/

Maybe you are thinking of Link's Awakening and the seashells. You only need 20 seashells to get the second sword but you can collect somewhere around 26 in the game.

OK, let's resume it: You can definitely get 20 hearts in LttP (at least in the version I've played). I've made a video yesterday and just uploaded it to Youtube, showing the locations of all the HCs (11) and HCPs (24) I've collected:

ZTC wrote:I'll have to get a listing of hcps as I only have 19 hearts to see if my copy has the full 20 or not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJB86Vr8jhE&fmt=18

But I'm really curious if there are actually some "extra" HCPs I've missed. So if anyone has got the time and the motivation to watch it (9 min) and remembers places not mentioned there... 🙄

BTW, after playing some ZC quests, LttP "has become" a whole lot easier! I think yesterday was my first time to play all the way from the beginning through the end of lv 7 without savestates (no death) in 9 hours while collecting all (?) HC(P)s & items and recording movies of getting the HC(P)s (via ZSNES).
Maybe I should look for an interesting ROM hack 😉 Any recommendations? (IPS patches aren't illegal to ask for here, right?)

I scanned through the entire video and you found all the locations for the heart pieces. Maybe that will clear up some confusion.

blubb wrote:Maybe I should look for an interesting ROM hack 😉 Any recommendations?

[SIZE="6"]FUCK YES.[/SIZE]

calm down ^^" oh and be warned, that hack is pretty darn hard 😉 or at least the very first dungeon/prison is.

franpa wrote:calm down ^^" oh and be warned, that hack is pretty darn hard 😉 or at least the very first dungeon/prison is.

Oh yes, the first dungeon was hardcore 😃 I really wanted to avoid using savestates... but after 15 minutes in that b**ch my opinion changed slightly (sword- and shieldless... ouch 😉 )

BTW thx for the info, now I have sth to do when I'm stuck in a ZC quest and awaiting an answer in the help thread.

also, don't follow the dungeon order it says on the end of your bed (in links house) that is incorrect and is a known bug in the game 😊

well in twillight
you know when you have to catch that fish at the start
took me a week to firgure it out lol