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Desert Bus 6 began Friday, 16 November 2012, and breached one million US dollars in lifetime donations on 19 November at 6:46pm<ref name=":11">{{Cite news |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaUEaG35D4 |title=Daddy Ashton: Beware The Moon |author=DesertBusForHope |date=16 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120830225937/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaUEaG35D4 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |url-status=live |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{cite news |url= http://desertbus.org/2012/05/16/5680/ |title=Desert Bus 6 Announcements! |last=Heilke |first=Tally |date=16 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120604185958/http://desertbus.org/2012/05/16/5680/ |archive-date=4 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{cite news |url= https://www.facebook.com/DesertBus/posts/427205977303683?comment_id=5304825&offset=0&total_comments=14 |title=Announcement time! |author=Desert Bus for Hope |date=17 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |via=[[Facebook]] |archive-date=21 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121031739/https://www.facebook.com/DesertBus/posts/427205977303683?comment_id=5304825&offset=0&total_comments=14 |url-status=live}}</ref> Lifetime donations subsequently passed $5 million in 2018, and $10 million in 2023. Additionally, 2020 was the first individual year surpassing one million dollars in donations after including all money raised through merchandise, and 2021 was the first year surpassing one million dollars in donations logged during the event alone. The tenth year of Desert Bus was the subject of a documentary called "We Are Desert Bus", released in 2019.

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]] or [[Sega_CD#Models|JVC X'Eye]] hardware,. butInstead insteadthe event utilized a [[Cloud computing|cloud-hosted]] [[Video game console emulator|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 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 remaining approximately $120,000 needed to reach this goal within an hour and a half, making the milestone within 15 minutes of the deadline. The run ended within $100,000 of the $12 million lifetime milestone; as a result, unless this is surpassed once post-event 2024 donations are tabulated, Desert Bus 2025 is set to be the first single year to pass two lifetime million-dollar milestones.