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).
Download Rhea/Phoebe Sorter: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Rhea-Phoebe-Sorter Back in 2015, hardware engineer Deunan released his Rhea and Phoebe ODEs (optical drive emulators) for the Sega Saturn. These two represent the first of their kind on Sega’s fifth-generation home gaming console and, interestingly enough, they remain the most stable options to this very day, with the least number […]
Click here to purchase a digital ROM of Frontier Force. On Wednesday, April 23rd, developer Badcomputer (along with music composer Crisps) released a brand-new indie game for the SEGA Master System: Frontier Force! The asking price for the digital ROM is only $4.99, although I encourage you to consider donating a few bucks extra […]
Download Patch: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Capcomvs.SNK2-EnglishPatchDreamcast Exactly one year in the making, today I proudly announce our English translation patch release for “Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001” on the SEGA Dreamcast! What started as a simple “can I port over the PS2 assets?” exercise turned into a full-blown, highly polished patch of which I am […]
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 […]
