My advice is to actually try them and see how they fit your own needs. If you're willing to dig you can get all of the above for stupidly cheap (I once bought a bag of 12 for £12) and have an array of them to try out. You could even borrow one. If you want to use a different gameboy because you think everyone else uses a DMG to feel "leet". You're just trying to find the same supposed sense of superiority by being different.
Don't worry about other people, find what works for you.
My tuppence (your mileage may vary):
DMG's sound pretty good unmodded actually. Pro sound is mostly just to stop it sounding like shit if you're running it through a lot of cables at a club or whatever. Classic sound, chunky and bassy.
Color's have a better CPU but can be really noisy unmodded. Modded they're actually pretty similar to the DMG.
Advance's used to be hated on because the wav channel sounded bad. As Nitro pointed out, he just fixed that. Generally speaking though, I've found them a bit raspy and noisy. The SP is basically the perfect handheld though, and the back light is sweet.
I mostly write on a color and then record and do everything else on a brick.
The quality of a composition, sadly, is not subjective. There are ways of telling when a composition took effort and/or skill into being made, and when it doesn't. Even if it 's not your cup of tea, even if you hate it, if you can recognize a piece of artwork as something that the artist worked hard on getting right, then you've stumbled upon a work of good quality.
However, even if you like something, if you can tell it was pretty much thrown together whimsically and without much thought, could you say it's quality material? Wouldn't you be more prone to call it a "guilty pleasure" of sorts?
The ability to tell the difference between something you don't like and something that's bad is surprisingly rare. The opposite is equally true.
But more seriously, it was meant as an actual statement of how I feel about this. Seeing as I have been guilty of complaining about how people perceive chip myself.
I also used "generally" because zan zan always has something to complain about but regularly makes some of the most interesting chip music I've encountered.
I've realised recently that (generally) the most interesting (chip) musicians don't complain about the state of things and instead just set out to improve the scene by adding their best quality work to it.
Because no one's good at something from the beginning. Every time you hear a song that makes you go "HOLY SHIT" be it chipmusic or otherwise, or a painting that totally amazes you or whatever, the person who made that didn't wake up and just do it. It's not their first painting. It's not their tenth song. They've done it hundreds and hundreds of times and they spent most of that time sucking.
That's why "My first LSDJ" posts are always so ignored. If it's your first time doing anything, it's probably going to suck. That's not a criticism of the person who's first time it is, it's just a fact of nature. You can't get good without being bad first. It's causality.
Got the .bmp method to work with one picture, here's the result:
It only worked with this image, can't get it to work with other images. Trying to figure out the audacity method, but getting nothing so far.
With audacity import raw data and be sure to choose either U-law or A-law in encoding.
Use what ever effects you want but leave a gap at the start so you don't damage the header.
When you export make sure you add the right extension and choose "raw" and either u-law or a-law in the encoding depending on what you chose to start with.
