Ever wished your favorite old games supported automatic save syncing to the cloud? Have you lost all hope that anyone will ever create a completely automatic, no-strings-attached, open source tool to do it?

Such a thing exists today! Though I've previously announced the tool here, it has since that time been enhanced - it no longer requires a hardwired connection or NAS device as my previous announcement said - now anyone can use it to sync saves, even over wi-fi, to your dropbox or onedrive, so you can truly sync to the cloud. It still supports syncing to your NAS, or even a thumbdrive.

I'd love to get more feedback on the tool, and contributions to add support for more games are welcome.

For a tutorial to set it up (can be setup in 5-10 minutes), see this: http://www.michaelgcarlson.com/settings/tutorial/

For a list of currently supported applications (which will be expanded), see this: http://www.michaelgcarlson.com/settings/supported-applications/

Full source code lives here: https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/tree/develop/src/SettingsEngine

You can choose where to backup to, and it supports more than just cloud.

You can sync to your USB stick, or your NAS, or even another hard drive on the same computer.

Looks pretty cool and this will work with older games that use Dosbox? I mainly use GameSave Manages and your projects sounds good too. Can't wait to try it out.

Oh, might give it a go then.

Yeah, it works with virtually any game - many of the games it already supports are dosbox games. It only supports 116 games right now, but I intend to add support for many more, and accept community contributions to support more games as well.

The beauty is, it syncs for you in the background. You don't need to remember to hit a "sync" button when you're done playing. it just occupies a little tray icon in the corner which you can click to see all it is storing for a specific game. The interface isn't pretty, but if it's doing its job you won't usually need to look at it.

GameSave Manager's "Sync & Link" functionality is not as safe as a real backup - all it takes is one machine to write a corrupt save file, and poof, your save is gone. There is no history. My tool functions more like a real backup - it keeps a few historical versions of save files, that you can get out from the UI if you need to. And this solution is just about as fast as Sync & Link, because it carefully watches files then goes to sleep, only waking briefly when necessary to back up things when they change, and even stores your files compressed to save space.