[JoeMattiello]

Hi, dev here. That's ununfortuante of the side effect of Apple TV not having "permanent storage" from an SDK standpoint every thing is a cache.

Commercial apps can use iCloud sync on tvOS, I tried adding that support and Apple banned my Apple ID without really telling me why but I think it was testing that feature.

I'm working on code to sync roms and saves with a desktop app (I just ported the whole app to native macOS Catalyst) or another cloud sync to workaround that limitation.

The tvOS page indicates this already and there is a way to manually backup and restore save states until automation comes.

This is not an issue on iOS or iPad OS and all other EMUs for Apple TV have the same issue unless they have their own cloud sync which I've yet to come across.