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Heroes of Might and Magic IV - Cyrus Annihilator - 01-26-2014

Smart people of tSR forum, I have another request for you guys.
I've ripped the sprites from Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2 and 3 using "third-party" softwares, but for the fourth game there are no such tools.

There is a software capable of seeing the sprites inside the data archive, as you guys can see in this little tutorial. Butr ripping with this software is too painful, I would need to take thousand screenshots...
The sprite files are inside a .h4r file and I was able to open and extract using the "Total Comander" software. These spirte files are .gz files and when I open these files (with 7zip or WinRAR) there is a file without extension inside.
[+]Spoiler

Does anyone knows how can I see the images inside this .gz file?
Can I share one of these files here or is against our rules?

Thanks in advance

RE: Heroes of Might and Magic IV - puggsoy - 01-30-2014

Yeah, if you could upload it I can take a gander. You're allowed to share files, but you should probably host them elsewhere and just give the link.

(Also someone might wanna move this to QiT?)

RE: Heroes of Might and Magic IV - Cyrus Annihilator - 03-06-2014

Here's a sample of these files: link

Thx in advance!

RE: Heroes of Might and Magic IV - Cyrus Annihilator - 03-22-2014

Last but not least, here's the software capable of viewing the sprites inside the files; maybe it can help your research.
Cheers!

RE: Heroes of Might and Magic IV - sutinoer - 05-26-2014

Is this project still current?

RE: Heroes of Might and Magic IV - Cyrus Annihilator - 06-10-2014

It lacks a proper extractor. So, it's impossible to predict when it will be done. I can't rip the sprites one by one, not in the next fews years...