My name is Derek Pascarella (also knows as “ateam”), and I focus largely on developing translation patches for the SEGA Dreamcast. However, I have love for the entirety of the retro gaming spectrum.
If you want to check out my personal projects (or get in touch with me directly), head on over to my website, https://DreamcastForever.com.
If you’re feeling generous and want to contribute to my ongoing Dreamcast endeavors, I accept donations via PayPal. While my projects are driven by love and passion for SEGA’s swan-song console, every dollar helps, and all funds will go directly back into my projects (e.g., hardware and software procurement).
I’m not much of a YouTuber, but I decided to whip together a video on the FM Towns Marty. The typical videos one finds when trying to research this often misunderstood machine are of the usual “What Went Wrong?” and “Why Did it Fail?” variety. As a result, I wanted to contribute something a bit […]
Download Patch: https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18173 Riggles has just released a major quality-of-life patch for “Skies of Arcadia” on the SEGA Dreamcast. Now, for the first time ever, the multi-language PAL version of the game can be run in full 60hz over RGB SCART without any audio desync! For some background, the NTSC-U version of “Skies” supported […]
Launch Trailer Download Patch https://github.com/DerekPascarella/TeamInnocent-EnglishPatchPCFX After more than a decade in development and having passed through many hands, the long-awaited version 0.9 of the English translation patch for Team Innocent: The Point of No Return – G.C.P.O.SS has finally been released! Marking the 30th anniversary of NEC’s PC-FX, this milestone brings the classic […]
I’ve just put together a video overview of the brand-new DreamConn S from Chris Daioglou of DreamMods.net. While no official product page exists for it yet, by purchasing a DreamConn+ from his website today, you are automatically signing up for a DreamConn S. With that out of the way, let’s talk about this amazing wireless […]
Some of you may remember the article I published on April 17th this year highlighting a brand-new VM2 feature that allowed openMenu, the open source menu software for the GDEMU ODE, to bring automatic per-game virtual VMU switching to the SEGA Dreamcast for the very first time. To draw a comparison for the uninitiated, this […]
Download Toolkit: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/VMU-Disc-Builder These days, we have many options for transferring save files to or from our VMUs and computers. For instance, a cheap serial SD card reader is readily available on Amazon that works wonderfully with DreamShell. Additionally, the VM2 and upcoming VMU Pro from 8BitMods make this sort of task a breeze thanks […]
Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjUgXkdiVq4 Though I’m not much of a video production guy (and more much of a software engineer/hacker), I decided to put together a video tutorial to help all of the people out there asking me and others for help with openMenu. So, what is openMenu, you ask? It’s a completely free and open source […]
Download Patch https://github.com/DerekPascarella/BirdcageOfHorrors-EnglishPatchDreamcast/ Last month, I released restoration patches for all six discs of “Birdcage of Horrors” (Grauen no Torikago / グラウエンの鳥籠) on the SEGA Dreamcast. Today, I’m proud to announce my team and I have released a full-blown English translation patch, covering a grand total of 407 FMVs! If you’ve never heard of […]
Download Patch https://github.com/DerekPascarella/GrauenNoTorikago-RestorationPatchDreamcast I have just released patches for all six discs of “Grauen no Torikago” (Birdcage of Horrors) on the SEGA Dreamcast. Until now, there’s been no way to experience this film (outside of captures on YouTube) due to the nature of its unique release. That is, unless of course you were in […]
OMPeaRetro has just released his brand-new FM2AND6 controller, combining both 2-button and 6-button FM Towns controller functionality into one pad! Both the FM Towns and FM Towns Marty are notorious for very expensive controllers on the second-hand market, a problem OMPeaRetro has sought to fix once and for all. Even cooler still is that, while […]
