anyway to restore backed up cloud save data?

[Vyriss]

I switched both my drives today and reinstalled the game and it started in a different language and showed a box of text with 3 buttons, since I couldn't read I pressed the bottom yellow one

was that asking me if I wanted to use my cloud backup data? what did I do?

did I really let 50+ hours go down the drain until I reinstall my old internal SSD to get the save file.....

[Null_User]

On the title screen, where you are asked to select a data slot, there are two icons to the right. One is a cloud icon with an up arrow, the other is a monitor icon with a down arrow. To get your save from the cloud, you have to click on the monitor/down arrow icon.

[Vyriss]

I did that but it didn't do anything, does it mean my cloud save got overwrittten? I didn't click the cloud icon at all, guess I really do have to install my old drive probably....ugh what a pain.

[Null_User]

Originally posted by Batter:

I did that but it didn't do anything, does it mean my cloud save got overwrittten? I didn't click the cloud icon at all, guess I really do have to install my old drive probably....ugh what a pain.

It means your save is in your old drive indeed (IF you haven't formatted it). Reinstall that drive, launch the game, then click on the cloud/up arrow icon to send the data to the cloud, Next, install your new drive and click the monitor/down arrow to retrieve it.

[Lavian]

I would actually warn against starting the game with cloud saves active, with the old drive. You should probably manually backup the saves before even starting Steam, just to be sure, but Steam will generally try to cloud sync any saves on game startup. If you have cloud saves on, and if it sees the new, blank, saves are on the cloud, and Steam recognizes them as newer than the original ones with progression, it'll overwrite the local saves with the cloud saves.

In general though: turn off cloud saves > open the game with the old save > save the game to create a newer record > close the game > turn on cloud saves > open and close the game again, is generally how you deal with this sort of thing.

That said, the manual upload/download buttons are pretty unusual, so not sure how those impact things. It looks like the game doesn't automatically sync cloud data, so may be able to not fiddle with the cloud settings, but I wouldn't personally risk that at this point.

[Null_User]

Originally posted by Lavian:

I would actually warn against starting the game with cloud saves active, with the old drive. You should probably manually backup the saves before even starting Steam, just to be sure, but Steam will generally try to cloud sync any saves on game startup. If you have cloud saves on, and if it sees the new, blank, saves are on the cloud, and Steam recognizes them as newer than the original ones with progression, it'll overwrite the local saves with the cloud saves.

In general though: turn off cloud saves > open the game with the old save > save the game to create a newer record > close the game > turn on cloud saves > open and close the game again, is generally how you deal with this sort of thing.

The manual upload/download buttons are pretty weird, so not sure how those impact things.

In my case, even though I kept cloud save on in the steam client, the save actually didn't get ported to my other computer when i installed the game there. I had to manually upload using the game's cloud icon, and then download through the game's download icon on the other computer for the saves to show up.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Null_User:

In my case, even though I kept cloud save on in the steam client, the save actually didn't get ported to my other computer when i installed the game there. I had to manually upload using the game's cloud icon, and then download through the game's download icon on the other computer for the saves to show up.

Yeah, so, that's part of what my edit to that post was about.

I checked my Properties on the game and noticed that the game had 0 Bytes in the cloud, despite cloud being active. Manually did the upload in game, and there's now data there.

With that being said, I wasn't 100% sure on the local save location, due to the names being extremely generic, but it seems to be
\Users\<Your Windows Profile Name>\AppData\LocalLow\CAPCOM\ROCKMAN X DiVE Offline

Which has files in there that roughly match the size of what was uploaded to the Steam cloud.

Not 100% sure those can be easily ported around though, in case they have some weird ID data on the saves or something. Which would be pretty unusual, but it was originally an online/mobile game, after all.

[Null_User]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Yeah, so, that's part of what my edit to that post was about.

I checked my Properties on the game and noticed that the game had 0 Bytes in the cloud, despite cloud being active. Manually did the upload in game, and there's now data there.

With that being said, I wasn't 100% sure on the local save location, due to the names being extremely generic, but it seems to be
\Users\<Your Windows Profile Name>\AppData\LocalLow\CAPCOM\ROCKMAN X DiVE Offline

Which has files in there that roughly match the size of what was uploaded to the Steam cloud.

Yep. This game's way to saves is uncommon to say the least. But I keep using the manual features and SO far (fingers crossed) I've had no issues.

[SparkTFS]

Originally posted by Null_User:

Yep. This game's way to saves is uncommon to say the least. But I keep using the manual features and SO far (fingers crossed) I've had no issues.

I think that as this was originally a mobile-only game, I wouldn't be surprised if the devs hadn't much of a experience dealing with Steam's API, and couldn't make automatic cloud saves work in time for the launch.

Still, it's nice to at least have the possibility of doing it manually, althrough it's still inconvenient. It would be nice if they would patch it in an update, as this is considered somewhat granted for today's standards.

[Vyriss]

Hmm I've read most of these and well alright sounds good and I guess I'll just reinstall my old drive later, back it up and do a cloud upload of my saves on top just to double make sure, I know they can't be lost for good but sheesh it sucks I didn't think to back it up before changing drives like a buffoon

[Null_User]

Originally posted by Batter:

Hmm I've read most of these and well alright sounds good and I guess I'll just reinstall my old drive later, back it up and do a cloud upload of my saves on top just to double make sure, I know they can't be lost for good but sheesh it sucks I didn't think to back it up before changing drives like a buffoon

Not your fault. By now, it's common for Steam cloud saves to be fully automatic. As said above, it was probably a case of the dev not fully understanding how cloud worked on Steam.

[Vyriss]

I made a backup, re-installed my old drive, uploaded it to the cloud using the button in the saves menu and now I have everything back again while having my new drives back in, thanks for the suggestions everyone and I have everything back now so I can keep playing another 50-100 hours of this game, love it so much so far, thanks everyone.

[redlinebmxone]

Originally posted by Lumi:

I switched both my drives today and reinstalled the game and it started in a different language and showed a box of text with 3 buttons, since I couldn't read I pressed the bottom yellow one

was that asking me if I wanted to use my cloud backup data? what did I do?

did I really let 50+ hours go down the drain until I reinstall my old internal SSD to get the save file.....

Replying to save thread. I had the same problem.