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You guys, having some sort of "test" or "initiation" is a really good way to stagnate a forum, plus it's kind of unfriendly

If you wanted to start a club full of people you like, then start a club. It's really difficult and presumptive to decide who's ideas are useful and who's are not.

That being said, I think the idea for a user subscription based recent post feed has a lot of potential.

I'd definitely be interested in an assembled board. It's something I'd like to have as a utility, but not necessarily anything I'd start as a project.

It does seem to me that they are perhaps preying on ignorance to some degree. I wouldn't expect many musicians knowledgeable of chip culture to shell out ~$300 for a nicely manufactured Arduinoboy (let alone $3,800). I see the target audience for this being those who view "music on a gameboy" as a totally novel idea/function.
Even their original reference to LSDJ as a "tracker" program seemed to suggest you were getting something that didn't cost ~$5 elsewhere on the internet with a community of support.

That being said, it's difficult to attack their intention to profit from this project. Anybody who claims ownership and a right to profit from a modded piece of existing hardware is already walking in a fairly gray area. We are mostly protected by our obscurity. On the other hand, I don't think anybody would appreciate a design like the Arduinoboy being corporatized and mass-produced for profit somehow. These guys sort of walk the line.

All in all, I wish these guys well. If they can make a hefty sum of money from this project, I'm a bit jealous and perhaps a little sympathetic to the buyers. I know I would have been sorely tempted to buy one before I was familiar with chipmusic; it really is a very cool project.

tl:dr: It's a cool project, and it's difficult to condemn it on the grounds of ownership.

I've used the cartridge in around ~5 gameboys. It has fit into each console flush to the back like you said with one exception where it sits a little bit farther forward. I've taken the cartridge in and out several times, being sure to push it in fully, so I think it's been pushed down flat?

All of my gameboys are DMG's, but I borrowed a friend's GBC, and it seems to show the same issues.

I'm actually having a really similar problem with my 1.6 cart. At first, it worked fine. It gradually began to start with the Hello screen jumbled and distorted and would sometimes then take me to the IOOOOOO screen. These bad startups began to increase in frequency to the point that it's no longer usable.

I've emailed Oliver. Hopefully, there'll be a response

Quint looks really nice. It's really tastefully done, design-wise. Do you have problems with the gameboy crashing?

I have a question about the transferer, but I didn't feel like it was necessary to start a new thread, so I hope somebody here can give me an answer.
Does anybody know of those Parallel Serial Port --> USB converters that you can find on amazon for like $10 work with the transferer II?