A Link Between Worlds Did You Use the Pins and For What?

[pug300]

In A Link Between Worlds, map markers/pins can be used on the over world map to pinpoint important locations and such, the maximum amount of pins being 20.

So, did you use the pins when playing the game and if you did, what exactly did you use them for?

 

[Fig]

I actually did use the pins throughout my play through of ALBW when I know I was going to backtrack to collect rupees, maiamais, or heart pieces. I used Red for heart pieces, Blue for Maiamais, and Yellow for Rupees. It really helped me remember to collect everything in the game!!! :>

 

[A Link In Time]

I actually didn't use the pins at all during my plathrough of the game.

Maybe I'll use Fig's system on subsequent runs. Seems efficient.

 

[Curmudgeon]

I primarily used them to mark Maiamais I couldn't reach yet and big rocks.

 

[Salem]

I actually did use the pins throughout my play through of ALBW when I know I was going to backtrack to collect rupees, maiamais, or heart pieces. I used Red for heart pieces, Blue for Maiamais, and Yellow for Rupees. It really helped me remember to collect everything in the game!!! :>

That's pretty much what I do....

 

[Night Owl]

I never use the pins at all, except when I'm helping family members.
I use it to mark the location of whatever secret they are trying to find.

 

[Azure Sage]

In my first playthrough, I used the pins to mark the cracks used for travel between Hyrule and Lorule, but after a while I realized that was silly since they're marked on the map anyway. Since then, I haven't used them.

 

[fused_shadows]

My first playthrough I didn't now they existed, so no, I didn't use them. XD

I plan to use them in subsequent playthroughs, though. They sound very handy.

 

[Heroine of Time]

I actually did use the pins throughout my play through of ALBW when I know I was going to backtrack to collect rupees, maiamais, or heart pieces. I used Red for heart pieces, Blue for Maiamais, and Yellow for Rupees. It really helped me remember to collect everything in the game!!! :>

I really wish I'd thought of that. I'm missing one Heart Piece.

No, I didn't use them. I forgot about them most of the time, haha.

 

[Skunk]

I didn't use the pins on my run through the Normal Mode of the game, but I'm marking down fairy fountains with them in my Hero Mode run.

 

[Mudora]

No I didn't use them actually. It probably would've been more handy than back tracking for hours trying to find the missing Maimais.

 

[Terminus]

No. Should have, but I didn't

 

[~SkullKid~]

I used the pins to mark Heart Pieces. It really helped because usually I would just forget where the piece was.

 

[pug300]

In my playthroughs of A Link Between Worlds, I knew they existed but I didn't have to use them, so nope.

 

[Vanessa28]

Wait there were pins?? Hahahahahahaha oh my word I didn't even know they existed until now In my first playthrough I was using Mother maiamai's map to search for the maiamais and relied on the numbers instead of these pins. It would have made it easier though. On my second playthrough I already knew the maiamai locations out of my head so I wouldn't have needed them anyway