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I own a MIDI Fighter and I use it for both DJing and with mGB and an Arduinoboy for banging out drum stuff for some projects I am working on. I'll weigh in:

Get the Spectra, don't buy an older MIDI Fighter (unless it's the MIDI Fighter Pro, which is a cool and rare beast) secondhand. The 3D one (in my opinion) is nice but unnecessary when it comes to the motion sensitivity thing. The big thing is platform/software compatibility. If you want to use it in Ableton, you'll have lots of fun using it in the drum rack. Be sure to check out Mad Zach's tutorials for custom drum rack building. Make sure you think carefully about the button designs on the unit itself, etc, they are hard to re-arrange.

Be aware that the buttons are not pressure-sensitive, so you may have to manually go back and add velocity/sensitivity to a lot of drum stuff. I use the pitch bend wheel on my MIDI keyboard to map the velocity while drumming with one hand, it allows me to accent by wheeling up and decrease the intensity of certain notes/beats, and the pitch wheel snaps back into place, which is handy.

However you use it, make sure your hardware or software will compliment its limited yet powerful mapping. It's tons of fun, makes drum beat and note entry a snap. Great to throw in a bag, or DJ with at parties. Also, the resell market for these are pretty solid (if you have a symmetrical/tasteful button layout) and you won't hit a mega-loss financially if you decide the MIDI Fighter isn't for you. PM me if you have any questions or need any help setting up.

Saw a pretty cool animation I remember one of my friends talked about making (@ 2:49), glad to see it was included

This is super refreshing. Great job man looking forward to see more of your music. It's not complex or awe-inspiring, but it's fun and pushes a couple of cool different angles on tonality.

It sounds like fakebit, which leaves tons of options for expanding your sound. Like most people here have said, the instrumentation is lacking. Chipmusic can be "simple" but it needs depth. Making different drum instruments, modulating pulse widths, triangle basses, sine or saw basses, all of those thing combined with simple vibrato, pitch bends, and legato, makes a world of difference. Give it a shot

Where I live, this is about as geeky as anyone is. Basically, the 3-feet-deep end of the Olympic diving pool.

Starting with carts produced in 2011 or so. It doesn't seem like it has been that long, but you have to account for the time it takes for distributors/resellers to get the carts and for people who use pockets to not-complain about them. I have owned 4 or so EMS 64M carts, 2 of which were newer and had use rivaling the Bleepbloop when I used the on GBPs. The old ones, obviously, sucked power.

I bought a third party clear battery cover on ebay for mine for just a few dollars. Unless you plan on reselling it, the clear battery cover is a safe choice seeing as it doesn't take away from the aesthetics of the console, and it lets the extreme green plastic in the battery area show.