Well, I managed to fix this issue. The fix is odd and probably specific to Dell machines but go into the BIOS and go to General -> Advanced Boot options, Untick Enable Legacy option ROMS

Machine now boots fine with joystick connected....

I am having a boot issue but only when my joystick is plugged in - Grub error:
Recalbox
Error: Couldn't terminate EFI Services.
Failed to boot both default and fallback services.
Press any key to continue...

Pressing any key reverts back to Grub boot screen, If i select Recalbox again, it scrolls through normal linux type boot stuff but then complains about 'File not found' in a loop.

I would just turn off EFI and boot legacy but for some reason it refuses to boot in Legacy mode ('Invalid partition table'). Dell Inspiron 5758 with latest BIOS (stripped down, main board and essential ancillaries only mounted in cabinet)

Machine works fine if I plug joystick in after it has booted. Joystick interface is one of the basic single joystick, 12 button PCB ones available all over.

Anyone have suggestions on how I might get around this?

@strodown Every time or just first boot after update?

I managed to find a 6.0 on one of my machines and loaded that again for now.

Hi all, I've only just started with recalbox this week. Installed 6.0 ok and had it working. Connected to wireless and ran the update to 6.1 but on the reboot I just get a flashing cursor in the top left.

Tried a fresh install of 6.1 - Same thing. It's running on a 5th gen i5 with SSD - Briefly saw the black screen with pacman ghosts but then back to flashing cursor. I read somewhere that this is the time it is creating the extra partitions but I have left it for an hour and no change (6.0 was less than a minute here)

I would go back to 6.0 but i deleted the images and there are no links to previous versions to download a 6.0 again

For now, it would be great if i could just go back to 6.0 if someone can link me to the images.