First post, by GreasyDogMeat
I just beat Pool of Radiance, and my plans have been to play the entire Pool of Radiance series, including Hillsfar.
Hillsfar, while not technically a part of the Radiance series (Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades & Pools of Darkness), takes place in a halfway point between Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds, allowing you to improve your characters a bit, then let them continue on to Curse of the Azure Bonds. Anyway...
My problem is that when I use Hillsfar's copyhill.exe file to transfer saved characters over to Hillsfar it gives me this error:
Couldn't copy characters from C:\POOLRAD\ to C:\HILLSFAR\.
Please check your source and destination.
The thing is, the files reside in those exact paths. Curse of the Azure Bonds, which has the same transfer program also gives me that error. If I manually take the save files that end with .ITM, .SAV and .SPC and manually drag them from C:\POOLRAD to C:\CURSE\SAVE the characters properly show up when starting Curse of the Azure Bonds. Unfortunatly, Hillsfar uses a completly different save file system, with character files using .HIL extensions.
I have no idea if Hillsfar is supposed to convert one of the Radiance or Curse save files into a .HIL file or what. I've tried manually dragging the .ITM, .SAV and .SPC files over to Hillsfar, or creating a C:\HILLSFAR\SAVE folder, but Hillsfar refuses to recognize any of the files. I even tried to be clever and renaming the extensions of the Pool character files to .HIL but that didn't quite work. 😢
In the end, playing Hillsfar with my Pool characters really isn't that important and if no one can help I'll just make new characters, but I would prefer to take my Pool characters through Hillsfar. Any clues about how to solve this conundrum would be much appreciated.