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Regardless of how you record or multitrack, you are using the gameboy to make the sounds.  Doesn't get much more chip than that.  Anybody calling that fake bit is retarded.  I think you will find pretty much any chiptune stuff you hear with really good production was multitracked for mixing.

As far as the production goes, if it sounds good, great!  This is music after all, the idea is for it to sound good.  Bad production on a lot of chip stuff is simply down to the artist either wanting to keep it raw, not knowing how to properly mix a track or not having access to the tools required for a proper production.

Keep doing your thing.  Who cares what other people think.  Honestly, what are they going to say?  'This sounds too good to be chip'?

If you have the skills to make your tracks sound better than a raw recording, why wouldn't you?

HA, I have a greyboy almost just like that, except with a normal screen protector and pink backlight.

You will likely have to email him to actually get your links; when I bought it from him, took a couple days, but he gave me the drum controller for free when he sent me the links.  Pretty good controller, although a few things are mislabeled on it.

I have the iPad controller, but haven't actually tried it yet.

Seems pretty neat.  Midi control for pitch on this and rez would be nice.  Any further work on the amenizer rom?  Front end for loading custom samples.  I tried doing it myself and I'm still walking with a limp from the ordeal.

Oh, and before I forget again, I recently met somebody you went to college with.  He was kind of surprised I knew who you were.

Awesome price!  You are basically getting the GBA for like $25.

This might be part of what is holding you back.  Even if you find a tutorial that is to make some particular instrument, perhaps not of any use to you as is, just by learning what bits make what and even just 'fucking around' with the original sound and messing with parameters to see how it changes the sound are great building blocks and will eventually teach you a lot.  Once you get a bit of that under your belt, it becomes easier to approach things intelligently and have an idea of how to get to sound A from nothing, and then you can morph sound A into sound B and it snowballs.  Pretty soon you are making awesome bleeps and bloops and it starts to become less of a task to make sounds, and just a matter of composing them into songs.

Keep at it.  It sounds like you have the passion, just not the drive/motivation.

Something to try when you are short on time and want to have a quick go without resorting to turotrials, try just making little single channel loops with basic sounds, let it keep looping and start messing with parameters.  It may seem like random 'fucking around', but eventually you start to get an understanding of how to get to certain sounds.

Don't give up.

I think a lot of it comes down to nostalgia.  The kids of the 80's who could never afford that stuff new and lusted after it for years are all grown up now and have the cash to burn.

That coupled with people with more money than sense, you have the current market.