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Save Keeper
General
Authorfalkenhawk
TypeUtilities
Version1.0.0
LicenseGPL-3.0
Last Updated2026/07/05
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Back up your PS Vita and PSP save games and sync them to your own Google Drive. Made for people with more than one Vita (or a PS TV) who want their saves to follow them.

Features

  • Creates timestamped ZIP snapshots of Vita, game card, and PSP/Adrenaline saves
  • Uploads snapshots to a PSV Saves folder in your own Google Drive
  • Downloads and restores snapshots on any of your devices, so a save made on one Vita can be picked up on another Vita or a PS TV
  • Shows your games in a grid with real titles and icons, grouped into Vita / Homebrew / PSP tabs
  • Sorts by name, by last saved, or by last synced (whatever was uploaded most recently, from any device, bubbles to the top)
  • Signs in to Google by scanning a QR code with your phone - no typing on the Vita, and you stay signed in until you disconnect
  • Keeps multiple snapshots per game, so you can go back to an older save at any time
  • Before a restore overwrites anything, the current save is snapshotted automatically (shown as [AUTO]), unless an identical backup already exists

Installation

What you need:

  • A PS Vita or PS TV with HENkaku / h-encore homebrew enabled
  • "Enable unsafe homebrew" turned on in HENkaku settings (the app reads save folders and the system app database)
  • VitaShell (or another way to install a VPK)
  • A Google account and about ten minutes for the one-time Google setup

Install:

  • Copy save-keeper.vpk to your Vita (for example over FTP to ux0:/data/)
  • In VitaShell, press X on the file and confirm the install, including the extended permissions prompt
  • Do the one-time Google setup, then launch Save Keeper from the LiveArea

Google Drive setup (one time):

Save Keeper talks to your own Google Drive, so it needs credentials that belong to you. Follow docs/google-drive-setup.md - it walks through creating a free Google Cloud project ("PSV Save Keeper"), enabling the Drive API, and creating a "TVs and Limited Input devices" OAuth client.

The short version of what you end up with: a small google-client.json file at ux0:data/save-keeper/google-client.json on each device. After that, connecting is a single Triangle press: scan the QR code with your phone, approve, done. The sign-in survives app exits, reboots, and reinstalls.

The app can only see files it created itself. It cannot read anything else in your Drive.

Controls

D-Pad - Move through the game grid

L/R - Switch between the Vita/Homebrew/PSP tabs

Right Stick - Move through the backup list

Cross - Create a backup (on "New Backup") or restore the selected one (press twice)

Select - Upload the selected local backup to Google Drive

Start - Delete the selected backup, locally or from Drive (press twice)

Square - Change sorting: by name, last saved, or last synced

Triangle - Connect Google Drive, or re-sync the remote backup list

Circle - Cancel a pending confirmation or the Google sign-in

On Japanese-region consoles Cross and Circle swap automatically, following the system setting. Backups from Google Drive show a [GD] prefix in the list. Use the PS button to leave the app.

Screenshots

SaveKeeperVita-01.png

SaveKeeperVita-02.png

SaveKeeperVita-03.png

Changelog

v1.0

  • First Release.

External links

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