Editing Spinning Heart

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:SM64SpinningHeart.png|156px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario 64''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|effect=Replenishes lost [[Health Meter|health]] when the player runs through it
}}
{{quote|[[Mario|You]] can also recover power by touching the Spinning Heart. The faster you [[dash|run]] through the heart, the more power you'll recover.|[[Sign]] on the [[Bob-omb Battlefield]]|[[Super Mario 64]]}}
A '''Spinning Heart''' (also referred to simply as a '''heart''')<ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) Issue 47|page=19|date=August 1996}}</ref> is a supportive object seen in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. Spinning Hearts are translucent red hearts that slowly revolve on the ground. When [[Mario]] runs through one, the Spinning Heart quickly replenishes his [[Health Meter#Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS|Power Meter]]. The heart spins proportionally to the speed Mario [[dash|run]]s through it, gradually slowing back to normal. While the heart is spinning faster than usual, Mario heals one sector each full turn the heart makes.<ref>{{cite|author=UncommentatedPannen|language=en|date=July 21, 2016|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGNpeFOOCY&t=377s|title=HP|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=November 11, 2018}}</ref> In ''Super Mario 64 DS'', [[Yoshi]], [[Luigi]], and [[Wario]] can also use a Spinning Heart to recover health. In ''Super Mario 64'', the Spinning Heart is just a translucent sprite rendered in the 3D scene with collision data. In ''Super Mario 64 DS'', it is an opaque 3D model.

A total of 15 Spinning Hearts appears in both games, with one in Tick Tock Clock and the one in Goomboss Battle being exclusive to ''Super Mario 64'' and ''Super Mario 64 DS'', respectively. Spinning Hearts are often found in areas with greater risk of damage or before boss battles. The following Spinning Hearts appear in the following locations:

{|class="wikitable"
!Image 
!Course
!Location
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64 Spinning Heart.png|274px]][[File:SM64DS Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Bob-omb Battlefield]]
|Near the top of the mountain, next to a [[sign]]
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS CCM Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Cool, Cool Mountain]]
|Underneath the Star for [[Mario's Super Wall Kick|Wall Kicks Will Work]]
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS HMC Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Hazy Maze Cave]]
|'''''Super Mario 64'':''' On a ledge beside the [[pit|bottomless pit]] in the [[boulder]] area<br><br>'''''Super Mario 64 DS'':''' Within the gap in the wall next to the boulder path
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS LLL Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Lethal Lava Land]]
|On a floating [[platform]] among multiple within the volcano, just after the [[hidden smasher]]
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS SSL Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Shifting Sand Land]]
|Inside the pyramid, between the [[Spindel]] and the vertically oscillating stairs
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS TTC Spinning Heart.png]]
|align="center"|[[Tick Tock Clock]]
|Under the group of [[rotating bar]]s<br><br>'''''Super Mario 64'' only:''' Beside the pole with the orbiting [[Amp]], before the elevating platforms
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS RR Spinning Heart 1.png]]<br><br>[[File:SM64DS RR Spinning Heart 2.png]]
|align="center"|[[Rainbow Ride]]
|On one of the four large spinning platforms<br><br>At the [[Red Coin]] maze, below the area that requires [[Wall Jump|wall-kick]]ing
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS BitFS Spinning Heart 1.png]]<br><br>[[File:SM64DS BitFS Spinning Heart 2.png]]
|align="center"|[[Bowser in the Fire Sea]]
|At the bottom level on a platform with three [[Goomba]]s<br><br>At the top level, before the rising and sinking poles 
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS BitS Spinning Heart 1.png]]<br><br>[[File:SM64DS BitS Spinning Heart 2.png]]
|align="center"|[[Bowser in the Sky]]
|Halfway up, along the path of the moving arrow platform<br><br>Just before the [[Warp Pipe|pipe]], in the [[wind]]y area
|-
|align="center"|[[File:SM64DS GB Spinning Heart 1.png]]<br><br>[[File:SM64DS GB Spinning Heart 2.png]]
|align="center"|[[Goomboss Battle]]<br><small>(''DS'' only)</small>
|Next to the entrance to [[Goomboss]]<br><br>At the base of the long vertical cage where Mario must wall-kick to reach a [[Star Sphere]]
|-
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SM64 Spin Heart.png|''Super Mario 64'' model
SM64 Spinning Heart.png|The Spinning Heart of the Bob-omb Battlefield in ''Super Mario 64''
Spinning Heart SMKun.png|''[[Super Mario-kun]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=クルクルハート
|JpnR=Kurukuru Hāto
|JpnM=Spinning Heart
|Spa=Corazón
|SpaM=Heart
|Ita=Cuore Rotante<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'' European manual|page=106|language=it|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2005}}</ref>
|Ita2=Cuore<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=92}}</ref>
|ItaM=Spinning Heart
|Ita2M=Heart
|Fre=Cœur-toupie
|FreM=Spinning-heart
}}

==Trivia==
*In ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'', when an item hits the player's [[Heart (item)|Heart]] barrier, a sound similar to that of the Spinning Heart can be heard.

==References==
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[[Category:Hearts]]
[[Category:Super Mario 64 objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario 64 DS objects]]
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