Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain (PS2) *.HOG

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
Game Ripper
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Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain (PS2) *.HOG

Post by Game Ripper »

Hello fellow VGM rippers (and coders of course!), I'll really appreciate your help with unpacking this type of an archive.
I discovered that contents of most *.HOG files can be extracted with a GUI program, Game Extractor but, sadly, it can't process one archive, the biggest of them all & actually the one I need to get unpacked the most.

I uploaded a 16 MB cut from that huge file (ZMOVIES.HOG), another 16 MB cut from MUSIC.HOG & finally 2 smaller archives, SNDVAG.HOG + SND.HOG (I didn't think those required any cutting). I hope this is gonna be enough, if you need more or bigger samples don't hesitate to ask though.

Best wishes & good luck!
DKDave
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Re: Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain (PS2) *.HOG

Post by DKDave »

I wrote this QuickBMS script a while ago - should work with all the .HOG archives.
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Re: Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain (PS2) *.HOG

Post by Game Ripper »

You're a lifesaver man! I can't describe how thankful I am!

Later!