Games, Life, and Stuff » Uncategorized http://www.techknight.com/blog Game development and more Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:35:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to simulate Valve’s Steam Cloud with Live Mesh (Updated) http://www.techknight.com/blog/2009/11/07/how-to-simulate-valves-steam-cloud-with-live-mesh-2/ http://www.techknight.com/blog/2009/11/07/how-to-simulate-valves-steam-cloud-with-live-mesh-2/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:43:16 +0000 techknight http://www.techknight.com/blog/2009/11/07/how-to-simulate-valves-steam-cloud-with-live-mesh-2/ Valve recently announced that their Steamworks SDK would include a feature called Steam Cloud in a future update. What Steam Cloud does is implement my own most-wanted feature – a way to keep saved games in sync across multiple PCs. (At one point I even thought I would write my own software, registering steamsync.com.)

In any event, it’s unlikely that Steam Cloud will be back-ported to many (if any) existing titles on Steam. That means I still need a solution for keeping my Peggle save file in sync between my desktop and laptops. :)

So if you’re a Live Mesh user, here’s how keep some of your PopCap Games save files in sync on Windows Vista:

Amazing Adventures: The Lost Tomb %ProgramData%\SteamPopCapv1005
Bookworm Deluxe %ProgramData%\Steam
Bookworm Adventures Deluxe %ProgramData%\Steam
Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 %ProgramData%\Steam
Braid %AppData%\Braid
Mystery P.I. – The Lottery Ticket %ProgramData%\SpinTop Games
Mystery P.I. – The Vegas Heist %ProgramData%\SpinTop Games
Peggle Deluxe %ProgramData%\Steam
Peggle Extreme %ProgramData%\Steam
Peggle Nights %ProgramData%\Steam
Plants vs. Zombies %ProgramData%\Steam
Puzzle Quest %HOMEPATH%\Documents
Torchlight %AppData%\runic games\torchlight\save
World of Goo %LocalAppData%\2DBoy
Zuma’s Revenge (This doesn’t seem to sync saved Adventure mode sessions) %ProgramData%\Steam

Why “Effective”? Well, you could mesh individual save folders but I prefer to keep things simple. It doesn’t hurt if one of the meshed devices doesn’t have all of the same games installed as the others.

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I plan to continue hosting this file indefinitely, so as always, you can download CDisplay 1.8 here: http://cdisplay.techknight.com/setup.zip

Update 2011-01-21:

Also, I recently set up a new official site at http://www.cdisplay.me that has CDisplay as well as links to alternative readers and DRM-free comic book sources.

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