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I found it more comfortable to use with the good old DMG.
I tried with an emulator, but my Logitech Dual Action controller has a horrible D-pad, and joysticks feel meh, where keyboard was uncomfortable, and difficult.
Before I had a cartridge, I was doing some practice things with my Xperia M2 with MyOldBoy! emulator. Touchscreen is not that bad, but I think it's not the most comfortable we can get.
And with DMG, Pocket and Color, it feels good and natural. And it fits in the pocket (my phone too, but it's not the same). I have a legit experiment with the true hardware, so I prefer it.
And also, actually there is no equivalent to the PS/2 and Arduinoboy/MIDI keyboard support with emulation. I think if it was the case, I will look again into emulation for when I'm home, and when I'll have a cartgridge reader/writer (I love to have one place to save and sync everything).
Finally, too keep the song files, a cartridge with SRAM is not the best thing in my opinion. I prefer keeping them in a safty hard drive.

If you have to push the button a few times, it may be because of dust or dirt between the cart connectors and the console connectors.

It's really nothing serious, just use a dry (or with a touch of alcohol) tissue to remove from the cart connector any dust blocking the way, it may help. If it doesn't, it may not be the cartridge, but the console. Try those comprimed oxygen cans (you know, to remove dirt in your keyboard) to blow air in the console cartridge reader, or you can open your gameboy to make it clean, it will always be a good thing to do. (but you will need a special screwdriver, called Tri-wing, it's in a Y shape)

This almost looks like a licensed game! You've done a very professionnal work!
But, one thing is bothering me. Actually, I don't know how can you change it, but the used space on the Screen is quite small during "gameplay".

Oh, and also, why does the score system isn't just " rounds survived: XX" instead of numbers with so much zeros?

I'll go for the resistor issue too. When screen is acting weird like this, this may be the backlight eating too much to let the screen do what it should.

LSDJ is actually a ROM file, working with some gameboy emulators. But like any (well made) ROM file, you can put it in some flash cartridges, to play on the real, serious, and sexy Gameboy. Flash cartridges for gameboy are the equivalent of something like the R4i for the DS (I think you've probably heard about it). But unlike the DS flash carts, rare are the gameboy flash cartridges to work with a simple SD card (actually I think there's only the Everdrive GB, and if you are just curious about homebrew ROMs, it's maybe a big investment to start).

So you have two categories (as far as I know) of carts, Everdrive apart.
Those which have a USB port right into the cart (like the, again, maybe too expensive for just curiosity, but solid and reliable Drag'n'Derp, or the, certainly cheaper GB USB Smart Card ones) to connect your cart to your trusty computer, so you can dump the ROMs.
And then, the second cart category, need a cartridge flasher to... well... flash ROMs on it. You'll have to purchase a cartridge flasher (or make one, if you have a DIY spirit), but not necessarily, because some shops sells them with the ROMs you want on it (if you prove you have a license to use the ROM). The best one out there is the BennVenn Reader/Writer, which can read every cartridge and write to every save RAM (SRAM) of every cart (if you want to backup your Pokémon save, or to load a special save file), and write to every (<- please someone confirm) flashable cartridges. So, the non-USB flash cartridge themselves, they are the cheapest ones we can found, but this doesn't mean poor quality! My favorite is the BennVenn 256M, it's the one I'm using actually, and, as I've said before, because you can prove your LSDJ license before buying it, it will came right to your home with LSDJ on it, without the need of a flasher! It's the only cartridge (correct me if I'm wrong) to have a divided SRAM, so you can have multiple saved games in the same cartridge, because others cartridges only allow you one saved game per cart.

I wanted to mentioned it, but I've mentioned the NonFinite Electronics shop for the EMS cartridge, so Kitsch-Bent store also sells EMS cartridges, and also sells BennVenn 256M carts, and also some PROM cartridges (those are a little bit tricky to use) and some others I've mentioned before.

Well, if anyone can confirm what I've said, because this answer was a massive one, and it's possible that I've made mistakes.

Wow Catskull, you're quick ;D

I think this would be harder to develop a webapp than a "true" program.

Just thinking, does BGB have a plugin system?

I don't think latency will be a problem, in my case, I don't have an ASIO soundcard, so, to play Synthesia without latency, I have an impressive chain of software : ASIO4ALL -> Midi in DAW (FL Studio) -> Midi out to LoopBe1 -> Synthesia, and the latency is not perceptible at all. At last, it would be cool for midi out lsdj, I think.