We don't support 3rd party images and yours looks like it was customized and changed from the default RetroPie image.
I see you have a number of services (like snapd or bt-device) which are not standard on RaspiOS and I see also an error related to CPU throttling - maybe the system boot is slow because the CPU's frequency is scaled down.
You can use systemd-analyze how long it takes each system service to start, it may help identify which one is responsible for the slowdown.

@sleve_mcdichael Thanks Sleve!

@dankcushions Thank you. Great to know.

Please don't double post.

@theissdev FYI, there's a PiBoy DMG facebook group that experimental pi is pretty responsive in: https://www.facebook.com/groups/piboy/ (although I've got to say, the couple of times I reached out to support via the exPi website, they've been crazy responsive there as well). They seem to be crazy knowledgable about their hardware and retropie.

Just FYI for posterity here. LCD was good.

ExperimentalPi response was sitting in my inbox this morning. Known issue. Required software/firmware update: https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG-Firmware-and-Script-Updates_b_42.html

The firmware definitely got it, but there's some new stuff in the software update as well (like the ability to specify the power LED brightness (which is much appreciated). Firmware updater also states that the software update is needed.

On a side note, I tried to update via VirtualBox first which I thought ended up bricking my son's PiBoy. Green/Red/None eternal power LED cycle. Threw the updater to my cough work windows box cough and the updater wouldn't recognize the PiBoy. The solution was to remove the battery so the only power it had was via the usb cable to the windows box. Was able to update then and the PiBoy is good to go there (just about had a heart attack).

Anyhoo. Documented here now. Thanks all!

That's great to know

@brandflake11 One is with the alsa-base.conf file present as above (for USB audio), the other is with alsa-base.conf either deleted or commands commented out (for no USB audio and default built in speaker). I'm not familiar with a diff unfortunately.