@mitu

Hey thanks for your help, I actually have solved the problem via first installing raspbian then retropie following the video below after installing with NOObs and now I everything works as intended.

Still have no idea why the boot didn't work for me but at this point I am more interested in relaxing and playing some lovely 8bit games on my Picade. May be I can bump this later on when my curiosity kicks back in.

Have a great day.

@archer Glad it worked! Anytime I have issues with displays I try to SSH/SFTP in to see if the Pi is actually up and running or if it's just not booting.

I have them in my Amazon cart , just waiting to pull the trigger 😁. I will let you know how they compare.

Nope, none of those ips are mine. Looks like it’s trying to connect to different servers but seems to fail. It was a stock image used from berry boot and updated through apt-get. I did have an open port on my router to acess it away from the house. I was previously running raspberry stretch and realized I was unable to load retropie on it (well easily anyways) so I did a fresh install and left the port open without changing the password before setting up roms first.. I forgot the port was open as on the stretch I changed the password and user already. So I’m assuming someone is rolling through ips on port 22 and default user and passwords seeing what they can connect to. I’m curious as to what was involved in this malware if that was the case.

Can you explain step by step, as I'm sure you must be missing something?

I use win32diskimager and so I would

Download the file from http://retropie.org.uk/download
Use 7-zip to extract the .IMG file from the .gz file
Insert my SDCard, check I can see a drive on it. If not use diskmgmt.msc to check the card, delete old partitions and create a single fat32 partition.
Once I can read a drive in explorer then
Open Win32diskimager, select the file and the SD card drive letter to write to. Click write.

I'm probably over paranoid with regard to drive letter and partition checking. However, the reason I check the drive letter is that I have in the past accidentally imaged to a usb stick or portable hard drive by accident, doh! I once lost over 800gb of files including old pictures and videos as I wrote a Raspbian image to my external hard drive, not a pleasant experience .

Si

@Medic227 Your topic was marked as solved - I set it to "unsolved" again, but if you have resolved it, please detail how. If not, please see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first