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Happy birthday melonDS! Nov 3rd 2025, by Arisotura

Those of you who know your melonDS lore know that today is a special day. melonDS is 9 years old! ...hey, I don't control this. 9 is brown. I don't make the rules. Anyway, yeah. 9 years of melonDS. That's quite the achievement. Sometimes I don't realize it has been so long... - As far as I'm concerned, there hasn't been a lot -- 2025 has had a real shitty start for me. A lot of stuff came forward that has been really rough. On the flip side, it has also been the occasion to get a fresh start. I was told about IFS therapy in March, and I was able to get started. It has been intense, but so far it has been way more effective than previous attempts at therapy. I'm hopeful for 2026 to be a better year. I'm also going to hopefully get started with a new job which is looking pretty cool, so that's nice too. - As far as melonDS is concerned, I have several ideas. First of all, we'll release melonDS 1.1 pretty soon, with a nice bundle of fixes and improvements. I also have ideas for further releases. RTCom support, netplay, ... there's a lot of potential. I guess we can also look at Retroachivements, since that seems to be popular request. There's also the long-standing issues we should finally address, like the lack of upscaling in dual-screen 3D scenes. Basically, no shortage of things to do. It's just matter of actually doing them. You know how that goes... I also plan some upgrades to the site. I have some basic ideas for a homepage redesign, for updating the information that is presented, and presenting it in a nicer way... Some organization for the blog would be nice too, like splitting the posts into categories: release posts, technical shito, ... I also have something else in mind: adding in a wiki, to host all information related to melonDS. The FAQ, help pages specific to certain topics, maybe compatibility info, ... And maybe, just maybe, a screenshot section that isn't just a few outdated pics. Maybe that could go on the wiki too... - Regardless, happy birthday melonDS! And thank you all, you have helped make this possible!

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