# (CM3 Raspbian) anyone have any luck with EmulationStation

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056>\
**Category:** DevTerm\
**Created:** [September 6, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056 "2021-09-06T04:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![blklizrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@blklizrd](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/blklizrd)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056/1 "2021-09-06T04:14:10Z")

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Just got my devterm. Very cool system, nice wide screen. Tried installing emulationstation on the existing rasbian that it came with. When i hop into terminal and run it I get:  
“\* failed to add service - already in use?”  
Tried booting to command prompt and running it from usr/local/bin but i get the same message.  
Googling it seems like this might be a memory allocation problem.  
So I was just wondering if anybody’s tried this, or if there is an easy fix.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056/2 "2021-09-06T12:54:57Z")

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I tried too and wasn’t having success. Using mednaffe at the moment which I installed using apt-get and it works alright so far, although there are a few strange things like the main window running off the screen and I can’t resize it. Games seem to work but audio is a little choppy.

The demos on instagram show retroarch working, so maybe that is worth a try.

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**Author:** ![blklizrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@blklizrd](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/blklizrd)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056/3 "2021-09-06T19:09:45Z")

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Oh stand alone retroarch would be nice… Thanks I’ll check out Mednaffe.  
I tend to try to install a game system on any pi project first. Helps me get an overall feel for the buttons, volume, image quality and power.  
And it’s really fun.

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/cm3-raspbian-anyone-have-any-luck-with-emulationstation/7056/4 "2021-09-07T12:53:09Z")

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I just installed retroarch using apt-get and will test it out. Seems to install and run just fine.

Mednaffe was too unstable and had a lot of latency for me.

EDIT: had to play with a lot of different settings and add the nightly build url to the config file for retro arch for it to download the cores. After that, I had to show the core download option in the view settings and point the directory at the core download folder.

So far it’s not bad. I’m adjusting latency settings and I also removed the config to exit on hitting escape since the directional pad is right above the esc key.

This page has some good info at the bottom on configs:

> <https://gist.github.com/AlexMax/32e5d038a66ce57253e740ea75736805>