@mituthe only things changed or added have been when I have started the desktop(via cli and startx) but nothing has touched Network etc... And like I have stated the addon Scaper works fine as does any and all network features once in Desktop.
Oddly just notice I nolonger can see an IP address shown but like I said I can access by SSh to the same IP it always uses
and booting to desktop and this shows IP address... something is clearly wrong with retropie side