Here's a way to hack crude support for cloud saves into your game without having to manually copy files from a USB stick
1. Get a free
DropBox account
2. Create a folder in your dropbox called SuperMeatBoySaves
3. Download
this utility, which allows you to create links between directories on your drive.
4. For the purposes of this example, I'll assume you've extracted the files to a folder called C:\tools, but feel free to use whatever if you know what you're doing
5. Copy your save data from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy\UserData into your dropbox folder. (e.g.
C:\Users\YourNameHere\DropBox\SuperMeatBoySaves)
6. Delete
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy\UserData
7. Open a windows command prompt
8. Execute the following commands (you type the underlined parts):
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\YourNameHere>[U]cd\[/U]
C:\>[U]cd "Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy"[/U]
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy>[U]C:\tools\junction UserData c:\users\YourNameHere\Dropbox\SuperMeatBoySaves[/U]
Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Mark Russinovich
Systems Internals - http://www.sysinternals.com
Created: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy\UserData
Targetted at: c:\users\YourNameHere\Dropbox\SuperMeatBoySaves
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\super meat boy>
You will need to repeat this process on each computer you play from. However, do not perform step 5 more than once or you could overwrite your cloud save with old data. Only perform step 5 one time with the most recent version of save data that you want to become the version stored on the "cloud".
Note that a normal cloud save system like the one built into Steam has things like integrity checks to make sure that files don't get corrupted if you save twice at the same time from different computers. This, being a crude system, will not have that, so I recommend you to take precautions by always creating an additional backup every time you do something important or beat a difficult level.
But for what this is intended for (i.e. not having to carry a USB stick around with you everywhere), this is extremely convenient and I've been using it for a few weeks now). Once you get the links created and setup on every computer you play from, you never have to think about it. You just log in from any computer and play, and everything "just works"