# Retroarch on Uconsole

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/retroarch-on-uconsole/11907>\
**Category:** uConsole\
**Tags:** retroarch\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/retroarch-on-uconsole/11907 "2023-12-13T17:20:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/retroarch-on-uconsole/11907/3 "2023-12-13T20:34:16Z")

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I was able to get most cores to work by manually adding the arm64 core builds from [GitHub - christianhaitian/retroarch-cores](https://github.com/christianhaitian/retroarch-cores) to the libretrocores folder in Retroarch. This post was very helpful:

> [@Did anyone get Retroarch to work? How?](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/did-anyone-get-retroarch-to-work-how/10605/2):
>
> retroarch -L xxxxx.so rom.zip I got retroarch working by this way on devterm & uConsole seems that official retroarch does not have arm64 core pre-compilied ,that’s why the core updater will fail

However, you can also just straight up install RetroPie on this system, which require less tinkering to get functional cores installed and also provide emulationstation, which is a nicer interface:

```auto
cd
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup
chmod +x retropie_setup.sh
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

```

**Basic Install \>\> Quick Install**

You can also switch the menu driver in Retroarch from rgui to xmb, which will switch to the higher resolution blue interface that’s more familiar from desktop installations (although I personally think the pixelated version has its charms).

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