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Something very simple and handy that I thought people that desperately search for those gameboy micro adapters could use.

WHY?
Link a micro to a MIDI-sync device or sync to gameboy color (GBC) and advance, using one cable.

HOW?
I found all the necessary information here.
If I can 'borrow' the images from the link above, here are the pins. On top are the cables and below the link ports.

The cables I used were these

Cut one of the four cables from the micro and half of the GBC and grab your multimeter.
Locate the cables that correspond to the pins. For the ones I used it was:

micro        number        GBC
white        1        green
yellow        2        yellow
black        3        blue
brown        4        orange
blue        5        red
red        6        white

Connect the cables properly, cover with heat-shrink tubes and you're done.

Connect one end to the GBC cable of your midi-sync device of preference, the other to your micro and you are in sync.

ENJOY!

and thanks to http://www.mksmks.de/technical/gbmtocube.htm

TEST RESULTS

DOES:
1. Using this cable and LSDJMC2 or Gijs' MCG, I had in perfect sync: a nanoloop 2.3 in the micro, an ES-1 and a KP2, at least for the ~20 minutes I measured each. Varying the bpm did not lead to bad sync.
2. it can send master clock from nanoloop 2.3 in a micro to nanoloop 1.5 in a GBA SP, but not the reverse

DOESN'T:
1. nl 2.2 in micro struggles with keeping the bpm from the midi-sync devises, so, not recommended
2. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't work with nl 1.x and nanovoice in DMGs through a direct link, using DMG-14
3. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't receive clock from nl 1.x and nanovoice in GBA SPs
4. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't send clock to nl 1.x (except 1.5) in GBA SP

NOT TESTED (let me know if you try any or if you already know):
1. sync with GBA, GBC and pocket
2. sync to LSDJ (soon)
3. ??

edit: fixed broken image sources