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Yeah, if your mains is 120V, then you're 100% fine. If the mains voltage is exceptionally low then you might find the adapter having issues outputting enough power but aside from that you're safe.

The battery packs were made around the same time, right? It's the same issue/non-issue. Technically, the power regulation circuits should be tolerant of that small a difference (since mains power can fluctuate by that much and more in some areas) but since it's old it might not like it much.

At the risk of being blamed for your battery pack dying, I think you're probably safe.

Personally I listen almost exclusively to tracker music, be it old democene stuff - 4-channel MOD or XM modules - or chiptune music. I listen to it daily and I have no sense of pop music of any era, even the era in which I grew up.

That said, I'm pretty sure there's a big part of the chiptune audience who are just looking for nostalgia and don't see the same depth and complexity that I do. I have a very wide appreciation for chiptune music and I'm not a 'purist', but if I hear something that's totally not chip I generally won't give it a lot of time if it claimed to be so. I'm a lot more open if the creator was more honest about the genre (but even then, I'm generally not likely to enjoy something that doesn't fit with my aesthetic).

However, I don't think the average person is like me. I think for most people, people who have a right to call themselves fans of chip music even, it's not about a deep love of chipmusic but about their own personal ideas on aesthetics and nostalgia.

Who knows, though. It's an interesting academic thought, but I'm not really too worried about it. People can do whatever they want with 'chiptune' because it won't chance the way that I make, perform, or listen to music.

On an only tangentially related note, I seeded "The Reality Chipmusic Love Industry" ages ago when you asked for seeders and only recently got around to really listening to it as a whole. Totally worth the effort in seeding!

Here's a question; what are the relative volume levels like on the various PSP models? I have a 2k model and it's quite quiet with most headphones. It's not unworkable, just a bit quieter than most modern electronics.

I can boost the volume above 100 but it obviously begins to clip. It's not an issue when running it through a mixer as I can boost the signal but if there volume levels are different on different models that might give one an edge over the others.

The click is mostly unavoidable with most Game Boy models and most LSDJ versions (the  v4.7.0+ "antispike" fix might reduce some of the click you get and using different motherboard revisions sometimes helps as well). It won't be very clean, though. The sonic qualities of the clicks mean they easily masked by other sounds, but if you want the note to play by it's lonesome, it's tough to avoid. Slowing down or speeding up the rate at which the frames change can sometimes help.

As for getting more resolution to your volume adjustments, you'll need to learn how to use the synth screen and wave editor. You're currently setting the instrument up via the synth screen, but if you go into the wave editor you'll see you probably only have 5 frames that actually contain audible waveforms. In the wave editor you're going to want to draw as many frames of the wave as you need or want. Obviously, each one should be slightly quieter than the previous.

Don't forget, numbering for frames is 00-0F for the first synth, 10-1F for the second and so on.

EDIT: Any time you edit on the Synth Screen, every single wave frame of that synth will be immediately overwritten reflect those settings. You can use the Synth Screen to get a good starting point, but don't touch it again after doing manual adjusting on the Wave Editor screen! It'll silently overwrite any changes you made.

If you load samples in, the Fxx command can be used to do a lot of fun chopping!