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blarg Sep 27th 2026, by Arisotura

I'm still alive. Main reason for the lack of updates is, well, same old. Job taking up a lot of time. Emotional work taking up a bunch of the remaining time. Desire for new projects, too. "Hey, this looks like an interesting problem, let's solve it!" - that's my brain in a nutshell. Maybe a different emulator? - As far as melonDS is concerned, I'm most likely going to leave it aside until November. I'll hopefully be able to take a decision. I atleast know what I don't want: I don't want to just abandon melonDS and leave it to whoever. At this point, it's a bit like a brand name, melonDS has a reputation within the scene... If it were to be picked up by the wrong kind of people, that could destroy its reputation. But then again, that's life. Emulator projects come and go, like everything else. We have DualSOUP, Jakly's attempt at cycle-accurate DS emulation. By its essence, it's already going beyond the structural limitations of melonDS. So, a very interesting project. There's potential to push the limits of DS emulation. And if it succeeds, it might even motivate a rewrite of melonDS to overcome the aforementioned structural limitations. I think that if melonDS is to continue existing, there needs to be some changes to how it's run. I need a way to offload the pressure I feel from this project. A way to make it not depend so much on my involvement, so that it doesn't halt if I decide to work on something else. So that I feel freer. A way to deal with the aspects of project management I'm less good at (hi, issue and PR backlogs), so that I don't feel so much guilt from having those pile up. I would need to expand the team, to involve the community more. I guess I'd like to run some kind of recruitment drive. Issue is, I wouldn't know how to run such a thing. I'm not a recruiter by any means, and it's hard for me to trust other people with a project I consider mine. I guess there would be various possible roles to fulfill. Development, whether focused more on the emulator core or on the frontend. Managing issues and PRs. User support on Discord or the forum. Managing the wiki, whenever I actually get that going. Maybe posting on this blog, too. For now, those are just vague ideas. I most likely won't do anything of note until November. Either way, I'll keep you informed.

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