You can also use 4.1.0 release of recalbox with NOOBS 2.8 :
https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/releases/download/4.1.0/recalboxOS-4.1.0.zip

Boot on recalbox and update to latest version 🙂

If NOOBS fails again with this version, you can also use Pinn 2.8.5.5 (à enhanced version/fork of NOOBS) :
https://github.com/procount/pinn

(works fine for me)