LAN: almost done! -- by Arisotura
Those of you who pay attention to our git repo may have noticed the recent activity in the season3 branch. The plan was to backport the LAN and netplay features to a recent branch, since the old...
View ArticleUpdates to the downloads section -- by Arisotura
I have been making updates to the site lately. About time. Namely, the downloads page didn't do our project justice. It was just a very plain listing of all the melonDS releases since 0.1. Technically,...
View ArticleLAN: finally merged! -- by Arisotura
As promised, LAN multiplayer is mostly finished, and a first version of it has been merged. This feature was already largely functional, so all that was needed was to backport it to the modern melonDS...
View ArticleWifi: when better emulation makes things worse -- by Arisotura
After LAN was merged, I was informed that it wasn't working as smoothly as the old season2 branch. In particular, it was harder to get a connection going in a game. I didn't quite know where to look....
View ArticleNetplay will be postponed -- by Arisotura
It will not be part of melonDS 1.0. The scope of this feature means it requires more development and testing time than I would be able to do before November. You can tell I was in a really active...
View ArticleSome news... -- by Arisotura
Uninspired title huh. Anyway, thank you all for your kind comments, it means a lot! I haven't been working much on melonDS lately, mostly been relaxing by working on another personal project. As far as...
View ArticleFuture of melonDS -- by Arisotura
Hello there. There hasn't been a whole lot of melonDS related activity lately. I've been completely caught in a different, but fun project. If you have seen my Github lately, you might have an idea...
View ArticlePublic service announcement -- by Arisotura
Lately, we have seen more and more people asking us about the site at melonds.org, so I feel compelled to write a post to clarify the situation. That site is a fake site. It is part of a larger network...
View ArticleHappy birthday melonDS -- by Arisotura
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...
View ArticlemelonDS 1.0 RC, there it is! -- by Arisotura
melonDS 1.0 RC, there it is! We have finally released a brand new version of melonDS: 1.0 RC. A bit of a disclaimer about this unusual version number: due to the large number of changes since 0.9.5,...
View ArticleLil' status update -- by Arisotura
I've had surgery a couple weeks ago, as I mentioned. It went very well and I'm recovering quickly, so all is good on this front. Thank you all for your kind messages, it means a lot! I also wanted to...
View ArticleOpening the nightly builds section, finally! -- by Arisotura
As title says, the nightly builds section is finally open, and you can access it from the downloads page. I realized there was some missing information that was good to have (like, uh, the commit...
View ArticleSorry. -- by Arisotura
I am completely burnt out. Haven't touched melonDS in forever. Even with gamepad stuff, I'm slow. My mental health is terrible. Don't expect much news from me for a long while. As far as the proper 1.0...
View ArticleLittle news... -- by Arisotura
Thank you all for the kind messages, it means a lot to me. Things are still rough for me. On one hand, I'm dealing with old personal issues that I have never really addressed properly. On the other...
View ArticlemelonDS RC bugs -- by Arisotura
The RC has lasted quite long, heh... It seems that a recurring problem with it is that multiple windows don't work with OpenGL. The issue is that it seems to be a Windows problem -- I tested it on...
View ArticleSmall DLDI fix, and maybe more -- by Arisotura
Mental health still complicated. Getting somewhat better... I made a more personal blog, to post about other fun projects of mine (including the WiiU gamepad stuff) and other fun shit. If you're...
View ArticleTechnical issues -- by Arisotura
It appears that in the past days there have been resource usage spikes on our server. So either someone is trying to DDoS us, or the AI garbage bots are hitting our site. I'm going to come up with a...
View ArticleTechnical issues #2 -- by Arisotura
You might have noticed the lack of Windows builds on the nightlies page. Sorry about it. The Windows CI is broken. Our CI expert Nadia has been on it for a while, so hopefully it should be back up...
View ArticleProper melonDS 1.0 release "soon" -- by Arisotura
Apologies for taking so long to do a proper release. Regardless, I think most, if not all, of the bugs that were found in the 1.0 RC have been fixed, so expect the proper 1.0 release soon. Hopefully....
View ArticleDSi bugfixes -- by Arisotura
So, yeah... The current mood around melonDS is "it does most things pretty well already", as far as emulation is concerned. While it's certainly true for the DS side of things, there's still a lot to...
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