@mitu got it. Thank you for confirming the change in this specific behavior.
I can live with that as i am using "favorites" within ES and dont have to browse the gamelists everytime.

@roadhog i believe the ^[[D or ^[[C spam occurs when you press controller buttons/keyboard whilst I compile is in progress. it's harmless but i would just leave the system well alone, unless you want to cancel (then ctrl+c).

Yes :), that is the reason. I have changed video driver to gl, also under /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/all location, and that solved the issue. Thank you very much for support, BTW I learned a bit more around the configuration thanks to that .