Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HOG file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HOG to another file type
To convert HOG Archives or videos to another format, you need Descent or other Game software.
Convert a file to HOG
To convert other file formats to the "Game Asset Archive" file type, you need software like Descent or a similar tool.
About HOG files
The .HOG file extension serves multiple distinct purposes, but it is most commonly encountered as a proprietary game data archive file. Originally popularized by the classic Descent game series developed by Interplay Productions and Volition Inc., these files act as containers that bundle 3D models, textures, mission data, and audio tracks into a single uncompressed package. Other engines, such as the Warthog engine and games like Hitman: Codename 47 or Hogs of War, also utilized .HOG as an asset container. Alternatively, a .HOG file might be a screen recorder video file generated by the Hotmart browser extension, or a data file storing a Histogram of Oriented Gradients for facial recognition software like OpenFace. Users typically want to convert or extract .HOG game archives to access the raw media inside, such as extracting legacy game music to MP3 or textures to PNG. For Hotmart users, the goal is usually converting the proprietary video container into a standard MP4 so it can be played in standard media players like VLC. The main disadvantage of the .HOG format is its highly proprietary nature. Game archives require specific legacy modding tools to unpack, while Hotmart videos are often locked to their specific ecosystem to prevent sharing. Standard online converters almost always fail to process these specialized files. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HOG file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HOG file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Descent or similar software from the "Game Resource Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to HOG, try Descent or another comparable tool in the "Game Resource Archive" category.
The HOG Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HOG converter.