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).
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 […]
Download Patch: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/JungRhythm-EnglishPatchSaturn/ In development for the past month, the English translation patch for the SEGA Saturn game “Jung Rhythm” has been released! So, what’s this game all about? “Jung Rhythm” (じゃんぐリズム) is a rhythm game for the Sega Saturn, often compared to “PaRappa the Rapper” for some of its similarities, although according to […]
Please note that at the time of recording this video, this new firmware was not yet public, but now it is! Simply use the VM2 GUI software to update your VM2 unit. For those who may have missed it, I wrote an article in December of 2023 (Dreamcast “VM2” overview and review video), accompanied by […]
Download Patch: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/DeathCrimson2AltarofMelanito-EnglishPatchDreamcast/ In development since mid-December 2023, the English translation patch for “Death Crimson 2: Altar of Melanito” for the SEGA Dreamcast has been released! Note that both a GDI and CDI patch has been provided, ensuring all Dreamcast fans can enjoy it. So, what’s this game all about? Released on November 25th, […]
In February of 2022, Chris Daioglou of DeamMods.net began work on a brand-new, next-generation VMU for the SEGA Dreamcast, dubbed the “VM2”. On September 8th of that same year, the VM2 project officially went live on Indiegogo. As of writing this post, exactly 1124 orders have been dispatched from Chris in Greece (many of which […]
