Since this game doesn't support syncing local saves with GOG Galaxy Cloud I would like to add it to the script I use to backup my saved games to OneDrive. My script is a simple Windows command file that uses XCOPY to copy the save games to "My Documents" (which is automatically backed up to the cloud via OneDrive).

For example, I play "Emperor: Battle for Dune" and listed below is how I copy its save games to My Documents folder which then automatically get synced to OneDrive in the cloud. I run Windows 10.

rem Emperor Battle for Dune
xcopy "C:\Westwood\Emperor\DATA\saves\*.*" "C:\Users\craig\onedrive\documents\My Games\Emperor\DATA\saves\*.*" /E /I /V /F /R /K /O /Y

As you can see, it's not rocket science. Just a simple XCOPY. I just need the path to the folder where The 13th Doll save games are stored.

PC Gaming Wiki lists "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Attic Door Productions\The13thDoll\" as the save game location. I opened this section of the Registry using RegEdit, but I didn't see anything that looked remotely close to a file system path.

Does anyone know where The 13th Doll stores its saved games?

Thanks,
Craig

I have nothing to do with the game (I'm not a dev) but it's entirely possible that the game's save is stored in those MACW, MChecksum and MCW registry keys, ie, the checkpoint based "save file" is nothing more than number of puzzles completed / videos viewed / current room location stored as a long number or series of numbers, but instead of putting them into a text file, it's stored as a registry key. I've seen that with other games before. Maybe you could create a script to export that particular registry key as a 13th Doll SaveGame.reg file and then back that up?

Thanks for the reply. What you suggest makes sense. I've done scripting using basic OS commands (I was a software developer earlier in my career), but I'm not familiar with how to script backing up keys/values from the Windows Registry. I know there is a manual Export option in Regedit, but I don't know how to automate that. Guess I can do some web searches to see what I can find. Thanks!!

Try this:-

reg export "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Attic Door Productions\The13thDoll" BACKUPFOLDER\The13thDollBackup.reg

Edit: Sorry about the messed up formatting, it looks like GOG has justified the whole paragraph, it's still just one line with only one space between each word though if you copy & paste it. Change BACKUPFOLDER to whichever folder you want the .reg file put into, then you just xcopy that .reg file. To reimport it, it should just be as simply as double-clicking the .reg file to add it back into the registry. If this works, could you please mark this as a solution as it will allow others to better see it in the future when searching for the same issues. Thanks.

Also if you have a lot of game saves to backup, GameSave Manager is a good free piece of software that handles all kinds of saves (files, registry keys, etc), and I recently submitted this entry for The 13th Doll support, so hopefully that should be included in the next update and will be recognized if you use that in future.

Thanks!!