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Raspberry Pi Machine Not Registering ... No Signal

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jabbamonkey:
So, the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ board doesn't work either... Running out of options.  Ug.

processedmeat:
If you have an extra sd card, you can follow the directions on this page to do a fresh install of the raspberry pi os https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

If you can the boot up the pi and you can see it on the TV, then there is something wrong with the arcade os on the sd card and you'll have to find an alternative arcade setup.   You can find some arcade raspberry pi images online that you can put on an SD card.

jabbamonkey:
Ok ... I bought a new SD card. In the midst of downloading an image... (taking a long time). Hopefully when I add them to the SD card, it will work...

jabbamonkey:
Alright... so, I used the Raspberry Pi imager to place the batocera image (that I got from batocera) onto my SD card. And, when I booted the arcade machine using the NEW Raspberry Pi 3B+ board and the NEW SD card with the burned image .... it loaded!  But, the image I downloaded had only about 5 roms, and wasn't configured for my machine.  I am in the midst of downloaded a "fully loaded" batocera image (hopefully that's better, and will save me time uploading roms and images). 

So, my old SD card just showed a red light on the RaspPi board when I turned it on. This new card showed the red light, with a flashing green light (which I assume shows activity). I checked the old SD card, and it doesn't appear to be corrupted (I see file contents when I check the SD card on my PC). Any idea why it isn't working, or what could be wrong? (Ideally, I'd like to get this SD card working ... since it already has the roms and the controller settings configured). Like... maybe its the SD card itself, and the Raspberry Pi board isn't reading it for some reason ... so is there a way to "rip" the image from the SD card, and burn it to another SD card?

And, in case I need to access the roms from my old SD card ... is there a way to do this? I checked the folders on the old SD card, but there were no roms or rom folders (my knowledge of this stuff is VERY limited ... I have raspberry pi running the game on an "arcade" TV monitor, and use a Windows machine for other stuff ... and assume this is a "linux" thing).

processedmeat:
I believe there are usually multiple partitions for a pi image, some that can't be viewed on Windows.  So those might be the ones that have been corrupted.  I just mentioned reading the sd card as a quick way to see if the sd card was working at all. 

Also did you try using the new sd card setup on your old pi?  This would confirm that some part of it got corrupted.

Usually the roms are tied to a certain version of the emulators so they might not be compatible with your newer batocera setup especially if the old sd card setup was gotten awhile ago..  So accessing the old roms may not help you anyways.  I'm not a linux pro as well so I'm not sure the roms are located as well.  I also think you might need to search the sd card using a linux computer.   I would just hope your "fully loaded" image meets all your usage requirements even though you'll have to reconfigure everything on it.

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