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Unfortunately there's very little that can be done. There are two email addresses you can try to contant:

[email protected]
[email protected]

Lay the situation out and prepare to be extremely patient. Really sorry that it had to happen to you.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Anyone who thinks that sounding good and working hard is enough to take you to the top is naive, anyone who thinks that sounding good and working hard isn't absolutely necessary is just as wrong.

Trying to pin their success on a single reason is pretty weird. They work really hard, they sound good and they've had a lot of luck. That's how people have always made it in the music business.

Sure, accessibility is important. Too far to the edges of the bell curve and you lose a lot of your audience, too close to the center and people think you're boring. That said, there are plenty of acts both within the chip scene and elsewhere who are easily within the same range and who may even work just as hard but have lacked a bit of luck in meeting the right people.

Hell, some of the opportunities that I've had in my career have far outstripped my expectations and it's come down to a good connection or a spot of random luck. It's something that you can't easily cultivate, sometimes you've just got to persevere, work hard and be friendly to EVERYONE. That's the best advice if you don't want to change the way you make your music but still hope to take it someone.

Anamanaguchi, along with Infinity Shred, work their asses off. They make connections with everyone and they're friendly to people even if they can't see how those people might help them in the future. The music side of things is a lot less relevant, if you work hard then you're bound to make great music and there's always a market for great music.

A synth isn't quite the same as a traditional "instrument". Using a Game Boy with a tracker can be likened to composing but not playing an instrument.

That said, there are lots of great options for using the Game Boy as a module that can be played with a piano keyboard, but you'll get a lot less powerful sound shaping. A system like the C64 has some quite nice sounds even when very little advanced synthesis is employed but personally I feel that the basic waveforms of the Game Boy are often pretty plain without something to shape them.

I'm sure you'll be able to make up your own mind on this but I you'll find that if you use it with a keyboard and mGB - a piece of MIDI software for the Game Boy - that you'll want to run it through an effect unit of some sort to give it some more unique and interesting sounds.

Here's my top 3 list for playing a Game Boy like an instrument in terms of ease of use and compatibility with modern music tools:

-mGB with the MIDI-USB adaptor.
-mGB with an arduinoBoy
-LSDJ-keyboard

I've used an MC-303, it's the original device that inspired the electribe type devices. It can be a bit tough to squeeze any really good sounds out of it but the drums are great and it's got lots of potential for controlling midi modules.

You can also get it for a lot less than an electribe.

I know this isn't a game boy, but I still think they look nice enough:

;3

Do you still have a copy of that? I'd love to check it out.