@navyseai said in Is Retropie dead?:

python 2

Bullseye Buster was (due to the reason that Python 2 EOL was in 2020 (IIRC)) the last OS that came with python 2 and python 3, Bullseye and Bookworm are Python 3 only (retropie builds fine on each of them (32bit flavour), not sure whether 64bit still includes some culprits (though mine seem to be working fine (Bookworm 64bit/Pi4), but that is just running with a few selected systems)).

@dankcushions it's a fresh setup so ssh is off. I'll look later to see if I can enable it.
Yea, soldered to the board. Maybe I damaged a component too.
UPDATE: I was cleaning the solder joints of the reset pins today. I also noticed I was testing from the 2nd hdmi port so that wasn't giving me a proper display. Maybe the rescue image did do its job. Seems to be working now on 1st hdmi port.