Link to the Past Heart Pieces

Link to the Past Heart PiecesThis strategy guide will assist you in locating the Link to the Past Heart Pieces. Every 4 pieces of heart will reward Link with a brand new heart container. There are also a couple of heart containers in A Link to the Past that will give Link a whole extra heart.

In total there are 24 Link to the Past Heart Pieces which will give you 6 extra heart containers.

Link to the Past Heart Pieces

 

Heart Container 1
Location: Sanctuary
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: Right after you save Princess Zelda and bring her to the Sanctuary, look to the left of the priest and there will be a chest. Open it to get your first and only Heart Container.

Heart Piece 1
Location: Lost Woods
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: From the Fortune Tellers house, head up into the lost woods. From the entrance of the Lost Woods, make your way upwards and you’ll see some bushes behind a tree stump with a door. Cut through the bushes and drop down into the hole. The heart piece will be next to you when you land.

Heart Piece 2
Location: Kakariko Village
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: Go to the top left part of Kakariko Village and you’ll notice a hole in the ground with a ledge over it. Jump down the ledge into the hole. Once in, open the chest next to Link and get the bombs. Now equip the bombs and lay a bomb next to the crack in the wall right next to the line of chests. Walk in the hole in the wall after the bomb explodes and the heart piece will be behind the pots.

Heart Piece 3
Location: Kakariko Village
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: From the exit of the hole you jump into for the last heart piece, go right until you see some stairs. Walk up the stairs and go right and you’ll see a house with what seems to be grass on the roof. Walk in and go down the stairs in the house. Look at the top wall and you’ll notice a crack in it. Bomb the crack and walk in. The heart piece is behind the pots.

Heart Piece 4
Location: Outskirts of Kakariko Village
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: From the Library entrance, walk down and there will be a long house. Walk in the long house and notice the crack in the left wall. Bomb it and walk through. Now on the other side of the wall, walk out the house and talk to the lady outside. She’ll tell you if you can reach the other side in time, you’ll win a prize. Ready….. Set……. GO!!! =] If you get to the other side within nine or ten seconds, You get the heart piece.

Heart Piece 5
Location: Watergate Temple (Light World)
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: From Link’s house, walk down two screens and then left one screen. There will be a little temple. Walk in and push the middle block upwards and either the left or right blocks to the side and walk up through the door. In the next room, avoid the magic bubble and puss the lever on the wall. Walk out of the temple and the heart piece will be next to the temple with the jumping fish.

Heart Piece 6
Location: Hyrule Field
When to Get: After Beating The Eastern Palace
How To Get: From the Sanctuary entrance, walk over one screen and you’ll see a little pond with a tree next to it on the right side. Walk up near the tree and walk right to the previous screen. You’ll be near the sanctuary now on a ledge. There will be a pile of rocks in front of Link. Ram into them with the Pegasus Boots and you’ll find the heart piece in the hole.

Heart Piece 7
Location: Desert
When to Get: After Beating The Eastern Palace
How to Get: When you get into the desert, Stay close to the uper wall. Walk to the left and get next to the bird on the cactus. Run upwards from the bird and you’ll see a cave. Walk in and go through it till you get to the room with the old man. Go to the bottom wall and bomb it. The heart piece is inside the next room.

Heart Piece 8
Location: Desert
When to Get: After The Hyrule Castle Sewers
How to Get: If you notice in the desert, there is a heart piece on a ledge next to a bird. The only way to get to it is to go through the first part of the dungeon. I’m going to assume you’ve already gotten the master key and the glove just to save time and space in this guide. From the entrance of the dungeon, walk up and go to the left of the laser eye thing. Pick up the pots and walk up a screen. Kill the quicksand worm thing and walk to the left. Bypass the next set of enemies and walk downwards. Now run all the wall down this screen and walk into the room to the left. From this room, walk out the first part of the dungeon and you’ll notice you’re now on the ledge. Follow the ledge downwards to the heart piece.

Heart Piece 9
Location: Zora River
When to Get: After The Desert Palace
How to Get: Walk to the right of Syrup’s Hut (The witch) and pick up the big rock with your power gloves. Walk the newly opened path until you get to the piled up rocks. Ram into them with the boots and then walk around the ledge and go up a screen. Jump down near the water on the next screen and follow the shallow water upwards. You’re now in the Zora River. Walk up and follow the path until you can’t go up anymore. Now go right and when you get to the three different paths, take the very bottom path. Follow it and buy the flippers from the big zora. Now go down and swim off the little waterfall. continue downwards until you get to the next set of waterfalls. Don’t go down them. Instead go to the left and you’ll see a little path within the trees. Follow it and you’ll find the next heart.

Heart Piece 10
Location: Death Mountain
When to Get: After The Desert Palace
How to Get: Once you help the old man find his way through the caves, follow your way up the mounain. There should be a very long ladder that leads to the top. Climb it and go right. Notice the ledge of the mountain. There will be a part you can jump of and a part you can’t jump off. Get to the left of the part you can’t jump off from and jump off the ledge. If you jumped from the right spot, you’ll land on another ledge with a cave in the wall. Go in and walk up the stairs. The heart is near the little information stone thing on the wall.

Heart Piece 11
Location: Death Mountain
When to Get: After The Desert Palace
How to Get: Once you get to the very top of the mountain, you should notice that there is a rock surrounded by three big boulders. Pick the little rock up and step into the portal. You’ll be transported into the Dark World, formally know as the Golden Land. Also, you’ll be a bunny. ^_^
Now, walk towards the bully and the ball. Look at the ground and you’ll see that there is a circle design on it. Stand in the circle and use the Magic Mirror. You’ll be teleported back to the Light World and you’ll now be next to a heart piece.

Heart Piece 12
Location: Pyramid of Power
When to Get: After First Fight With Agahnim
How to Get: When Agahnim teleports you to the Dark World, walk down the first set of stairs and go to the right. Jump down the ledges. Now walk to the right and you’ll notice a path. Walk up the path and the heart piece will be there.

Heart Piece 13
Location: Hyrule Field
When to Get: After First Fight With Agahnim
How to Get: Any time after your first fight with Agahnim, the lumberjacks will be away from the tree they were previously working on sawing down. Ram into the tree and the leaves will dissapear revealling a hollow three trunk. Fall down the tree trunk and walk up the stairs. Go into the room to the right and the heart piece will be right next to you.

Heart Piece 14
Location: Hyrule Field
When to Get: After The Palace of Darkness
How to Get: In the Dark World, go to the screen under where the flute boy is. there will be a little path that circles aroung a mountain thing. There is also a circle of bushes. Stand in the circle of bushes and use the Magic Mirror. You’ll be on a ledge in the light world. Walk into the cave and the heart piece will be behind some pots.

Heart Piece 15
Location: Graveyard
When to Get: After The Watergate Dungeon
How to Get: In the Dark World, go to the top part of the graveyard and use the Magic Mirror. If you used it in the right spot, you’ll be on a ledge with a cave. Walk in and get your heart piece.

Heart Piece 16
Location: Kakariko Village (Dark World)
When to Get: After The Watergate Dungeon
How to Get: Go to the house with the trasure chest game. Pay to open two chest and pick your two. If you don’t get it, walk out, walk back in, and try again.

Heart Piece 17
Location: Outskirts of Kakariko Village (Dark World)
When to Get: After The Watergate Dungeon
How to Get: Remember where the house was where you had to get through the maze within 10 seconds was? Well, go there and follow the path to the left and go over one screen. Go up the stairs and talk to the guy there. Pay to play the digging game and start digging. If you don’t get it, walk over one screen and go back to try again.

Heart Piece 18
Location: Kakariko Village (Dark World)
When to Get: After Theive’s Hideout
How to Get: After you have the second pair of Power Gloves from the Thieve’s Hideout, go to where the Smithee’s house is in the Dark World. Pick up the Big Black rocks blocking your way and get the Magic Hammer out. Pound the clay stumps into the grounds and the tree stump will turn into a set of stairs. Walk in and grab the heart.

Heart Piece 19
Location: Hyrule Field
When to Get: After Obtaining The Magic Cape
How to Get: Remember the heart piece you saw on the ledge before you went to the mountain for your first time and before you helped the old man get out of the cave? Well, go there in the Dark World. Pick up the rock blocking your way into the cave and walk in. Go through the cave until you get on the ledge. Use the Magic Mirror and you’ll be next to the heart in the Light World.

Heart Piece 20
Location: Lake Hylia
When to Get: After First Fight With Agahnim
How to Get: In the dark world, go to Lake Hylia and get to the left of the Ice Palace. Swim a little to the left and you’ll see a huge circle of little stub things sticking out the water. Get on the shallow water and use the Magic Mirror. You’ll be on a tiny island with a heart piece, a bush, and a cactus dude.

Heart Piece 21
Location: Swamp
When to Get: After The Ice Palace
How to Get: Next to the dungeon, Misery Mire, there will two little tiny rooms. one to the left and right of the entrance to the dungeon. Go to the left one and walk in. Go down the stairs, push the blocks out of the way and open the left chest to get the heart piece.

Heart Piece 22
Location: Desert
When to Get: After The Ice Palace
How to Get: In the swamp, walk to the very top part of the screen and then run all the way to the right. Use the Magic Mirror and you’ll be on a ledge in the desert with a rock next to you. pick up the rock and go in the hole. Push the blocks out of the way to get to the heart piece.

Heart Piece 23
Location: Death Mountain
When to Get: After Misery Mire
How to Get: After you open the portal on Turtle Rock, go into the Dark World. Jump off of The top of Turtle Rock and don’t go into the dungeon. Go left one screen and you’ll see a rock. Get it out of the way and walk intot he hole. Now walk up to what seems to be a dead end. Use your Ether Madallion to see the hidden floor if you haven’t already memorized the path. Once on the other side, bomb the wall and walk through. Now bomb the wall to the left and walk through it. When you get into the next room, walk down and exit the cave. You’ll be on a little island not connected to the rest of the mountain now. Use the Magic Mirror and you’ll be next to a heart piece.

Heart Piece 24
Location: Death Mountain
When to Get: After Misery Mire
How to Get: While going through Turtle Rock, you’ll soon find yourself outside the dungeon on a ledge on which is on the side of the mountain. Walk to the other side of this ledge and use the Magic Mirror before you walk into the cave. Notice you’re now on a ledge in the light world with a cave on it. Walk in and kill the bad guys here. Use the hammer to get past the stopper things and the heart piece is in the next room.