Rebel was a coder / cracker / sysop / trainer maker and door coder.

His main scene activities started in 94 when he put Phantasm BBS online and joined Traders Dream for a few months and had a few releases over the Christmas period. He then very briefly joined Hellfire that was just formed and was involved in a couple of releases for them. He then joined Quartex in early to mid 95. He continued with Quartex often remaining anonymous on releases (sometimes credited as Quartex UK) until leaving the scene around the end of 97 or early 98. During this period Quartex cooperated with Classic on several releases. He was also a member of Data Division as a sysop

Became active again in 2001 for Quartex on the GBA scene doing trainers until October 2002 under the handle Phantasm

he provided some cracking tutorials and a few cracks for the flashtro.com website in the 2010s before rejoining the BBS scene in 2018 and has been mainly coding Ami-Express 5.x and /X Doors since then.

In 2025 he worked on reverse engineering the Action Replay III and produced the Action Replay 5 ROM as well as providing input into the hardware design for the open source DeMoN cartridge.