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Heart Containers appear in one of two forms:
  • as full containers (generally after beating a Boss ) which give the player one full heart more

  • as quarter containers, found at certain locations in the game or as a reward for completing a '', Heart Container Pieces can also be found by lowering the Grappling Hook at locations marked on the Treasure Charts. Four of these must be collected to complete one more heart and increase the player's life. The completion status of the current Heart Container (a quarter full, half full, three quarters full, or empty) is visible on the game's Item Subscreen.


Certain sidequests enable the user to gain more than one Heart Container Piece total, but never more than one piece at once. For example, the mail sorting minigame on Dragon Roost Island in ''The Wind Waker'' gives you one heart container piece for sorting the mail within a certain time. This triggers a new worker to arrive at the mail centre- if you repeat the mail-sorting minigame within the same set time, he will give you a letter to post; the recipient of the letter will send you back a HCP via the postboxes. It is not possible to be given a Heart Container Piece worth more than a quarter of a heart, or to be given two in succession without visiting another character or completing another task in between.

Most Zelda games have a limit of approximately twenty hearts maximum if the player does all the tasks required to get all possible Heart Containers and Heart Container Pieces. However, a player can use a GameShark or similar cheating device to gain more than twenty hearts.


APPEARANCES IN OTHER GAMES


Heart Containers also appear in the '' Super Smash Bros. '' series- however, these perform a slightly different function to the Heart Containers in ''The Legend of Zelda''. In ''Super Smash Bros.'' a player using a heart container will lose all damage inflicted upon him (that is, 0%). In all modes of '' Super Smash Bros. Melee '' except All-Star, the container will drop the user's current damage count down 100 points (in the game, 100%, but this does not mean all of the damage is lost). It appears in very limited quantities in this game, but most commonly in All-Star mode, where only three are available in the intermediate "park" stage between each battle. These containers remove all damage, as they did in the original Super Smash Bros. Once one has been used, the player cannot use it again until he has beaten the mode. Heart Containers have no effect if the user's damage counter is at 0%.