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Desert Bus for Hope 2020, the 14th year of the event, was held remotely across multiple locations due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and is notable as the first year to, due to this restriction, not use actual Sega CD hardware, but instead a cloud-hosted emulator that could be passed between hosts using a web browser, a system they used again in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Desert Bus was held in a 'hybrid' format, where half the event was in-person and half was held remotely. The event mostly returned to an in-person format for 2022, with the exception of the 12AM – 6AM 'Zeta shift', as well as all guests and some of the behind-the-scenes crew, before returning fully to an in-person format and original Sega CD hardware in 2023. In 2024, the event transitioned away from real Sega CD hardware to the MiSTER Pi, an at the time new-to-market low-cost variant of the [[open source]] [[FPGA]]-based [[MiSTer]] project, due to ongoing reliability and availability concerns around the use of original Sega CD or [[Sega_CD#Models|JVC X'Eye]] hardware.
The most recent event, Desert Bus for Hope 2024, was the first year to raise enough money to last for 168 hours, a full seven 24-hour days, after viewers rallied to raise the
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