diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a7138372240e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
+index 1afa856f..dcd36f84 100644
+--- a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ option(USE_QT6 "Use Qt 6 instead of Qt 5" ON)
+ if (USE_QT6)
+     find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Network Multimedia OpenGL OpenGLWidgets Svg REQUIRED)
+     set(QT_LINK_LIBS Qt6::Core Qt6::Gui Qt6::Widgets Qt6::Network Qt6::Multimedia Qt6::OpenGL Qt6::OpenGLWidgets)
++    if(Qt6Gui_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "6.10")
++        find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS GuiPrivate REQUIRED)
++        list(APPEND QT_LINK_LIBS Qt6::GuiPrivate)
++    endif()
+ else()
+     find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Network Multimedia Svg REQUIRED)
+     set(QT_LINK_LIBS Qt5::Core Qt5::Gui Qt5::Widgets Qt5::Network Qt5::Multimedia)
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
index dd612f49c779..bde7555c6e54 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   enet,
   extra-cmake-modules,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  faad2,
   libGL,
   libarchive,
   libpcap,
@@ -28,15 +29,17 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "melonDS";
-  version = "1.0-unstable-2025-08-10";
+  version = "1.0-unstable-2025-10-13";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "melonDS-emu";
     repo = "melonDS";
-    rev = "f9e46fdc29f8e55aca6bc121c424890faee2e51d";
-    hash = "sha256-g5TVvnCoWQej9v2aii5klx7gRzUrokiwy0By0G3LkiI=";
+    rev = "91ab68090c0aa588aabaeaa5e2c62564fd661ccc";
+    hash = "sha256-04Wr7xUwz6Q9JDiEfTQh6Vx5q71dFVI9rScIpt6ywGY=";
   };
 
+  patches = [ ./fix-build-qt-6.10.patch ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
     extra-cmake-modules
@@ -47,6 +50,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   buildInputs = [
     SDL2
     enet
+    faad2
     libarchive
     libslirp
     libGL