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Happy birthday melonDS Nov 8th 2024, by Arisotura |
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melonDS is 8 years old now. Thus, here's the appropriately colored logo for this event: We have to a point where, well... You guess it, it's been two years since the last proper release. melonDS has become quite a large and complex project, with many moving parts. I compare an emulator project to a tree: when you're done with the trunk, it branches off in a billion directions. That's pretty much it. We have been through a pretty big refactor of the codebase, and that comes with its lot of issues, doubts, and so on. Was the refactor a mistake? What could we do better? One of the major selling points was the development of netplay. Unfortunately, that's not the first time I have big ideas, big ambitions, but fail to concretize them. That's ADHD for you. In a way, I'm also afraid of netplay. It feels like a bit of a Pandora box. I mean, it has potential for being a very cool feature, but also for being an endless source of issues. Dealing with the wifi connection issues for so long has given me a glimpse of it already. As a matter of fact, solving interesting problems is something I'm good at, but user support is not. I've had a bit of a similar experience at my last job, too. Regardless, I still consider melonDS to be a great success. I might try netplay later if I feel like it, but for now, I'm burnt out on that stuff. However! We are getting pretty close to the release. Our plan is to first release a RC of 1.0. Given the amount of changes and the scope of them, there may be more bugs and other issues than we can notice through our testing. The RC will be the occasion to catch them before the proper 1.0 release. I also plan to open up the nightly builds section around that time. Given the slower development cycle of melonDS these days, it makes sense to provide nightly builds to the public. But for now, I'm going to have surgery in two weeks, so I want to get the RC release out before that date. Hopefully very soon! |
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Adjule says: Nov 8th 2024 |
| Good luck on the surgery! I hope for a quick recovery |
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Arisotura says: Nov 8th 2024 |
| Thanks! |
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melonJYC says: Nov 8th 2024 |
| Happy Birthday melonDS! |
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lucaspltn says: Nov 8th 2024 |
| Happy birthday to probably one of the coolest emulators out there!!! 🎂🎂🎂 |
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Zyute says: Nov 8th 2024 |
| Having surgery isn't fun so I wish you well. May everything go in your favor Arisotura. You should be proud of the amazing work poured into melonDS 😎. |
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Salad says: Nov 9th 2024 |
| Happy late Birthday and I wish you the best on your surgery and make a fast recovery ^^ |
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Amnesia1000 says: Nov 10th 2024 |
| Happy Birthday to melonDS and good luck on the surgery!!! For DS fans this project has become very important for us. Thank you very much for everything! |
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Cesar Augusto Cobos says: Nov 10th 2024 |
| Compa! mis mejores deseos para tu salud! y para este protecto! Saludos desde Colombia. |
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^.^ says: Nov 10th 2024 |
| Happy birthday to the project and most importantly I wish you well for the operation 🙏🏻 |
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FerxaviZero23 says: Nov 11th 2024 |
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Happy birthday, melonDS! I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for all the hard work and dedication that has gone into this incredible project. It's truly amazing to see how far melonDS has come over the years, and I appreciate the effort you and your team have put into making it such a fantastic emulator. Thank you for everything you do! |
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AsPika says: Nov 11th 2024 |
| Happy Birthday MelonDS 🥳🎂🎉 |
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TMORAF says: Nov 11th 2024 |
| Hi, first of. Thank you so much for the work on MelonDS over the years. Second, in no way am I begging you to watch it, but Godpuu has made an 2 excellent videos on DS emulation, which includes MelonDS. He is being pretty fair in his statements and brings pros and cons of each. But I hope you and the team could take notable feedback from it and to hopefully bring stuff like Per game settings to both the pc and android versions of the emulator. I hope i'm not stressing you out too much about this, you work on it whenever you feel like it and in no way should things be rushed. I wish the best of luck to you. Here is the video https://youtu.be/oQ-m6vFyBg4?si=5CeabCCGtzP8oWa9 |
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LEGO_Vince says: Nov 12th 2024 |
| Just wanted to say these recent builds have been phenomenal! |
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Hidro says: Nov 16th 2024 |
| Happy birthday to MelonDS, i wish you good luck with the surgery and a quick recovery, thanks for this amazing piece of software! |
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c_axl says: Nov 18th 2024 |
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It's been a long time since the project started! Thank you for all the work done, I hope you recover soon |
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