Today’s interview is a first. As you (might) very well know by now, I’ve interviewed a ton of developers from various gaming projects. All kinds, from open-source to paid, from desktop Linux to a huge variety of programs and apps for retro handhelds running on Android (or Linux themselves!), even a small games studio and a pirate who runs their own Switch eShop.

What I’m clumsily trying to covey is that I have interviewed a lot of people over the last few years, but no one who has the same focus as today’s article.

You might have seen some of e1000’s work before, if you follow handheld gaming. He’s notorious for pushing the envelope on what your hardware is physically capable of doing, Steam Deck and ROG Ally running up to 64GB of RAM:

“The community is never satisfied and we eventually got 64GB to work [on the ROG Ally], I figured out the right BIOS edits for this one.”

Anyway, this is all just rambling on. Read on if you want to see how someone with no formal training has become ‘the’ go-to guy for hardware hacking any handheld, from the humble Miyoo all the way to GPD’s devices. I’m super proud of this one, because I was approached to get this organized, e1000 is notoriously shy of attention, but being obsessed with my own soldering efforts, we clicked very quickly and he was super happy to share his tales. Link as ever is here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-quiet-modder-behind-hardware-hacks-2/