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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.

ONLY I HAVE THE BRAINS TO RULE THE LYLAT SYSTEM

MAAAAAAAAN. Huge fan.  Such a great pop sensibility, fantastic melodies and great production. Makes me pine for summer.

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.

Glire has ruined my life by being an 8 pattern loop that's infinitely interesting.

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.