# Ri Pi Newbie Need Help Getting Retro Pie to work on my Uconsole cm4 emmc

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**Category:** uConsole\
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/ri-pi-newbie-need-help-getting-retro-pie-to-work-on-my-uconsole-cm4-emmc/15356 "2025-01-09T17:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dominick\_Shauntee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/dominick_shauntee/32/9498_2.png) [@Dominick\_Shauntee](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Dominick_Shauntee)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/ri-pi-newbie-need-help-getting-retro-pie-to-work-on-my-uconsole-cm4-emmc/15356/1 "2025-01-09T17:31:03Z")

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Looong time lurker first time poster … I got my pie 2 days after christmas been messing around with it in my free time … I can’t seem to get retro pie working no matter how i configure it … can someone break it down for me best way to do it ?? … I have a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 CM4108032 on it 2 low profile 64gb cards i have been using , have balenaEtcher,rpiboot, rasberry pi imager , and a Waveshare cm4-io-base-A io- board… and help Deeeply appreciated !!

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**Author:** ![Rex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/rex/32/16852_2.png) [@Rex](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Rex)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/ri-pi-newbie-need-help-getting-retro-pie-to-work-on-my-uconsole-cm4-emmc/15356/2 "2025-01-11T14:57:46Z")

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With the CM4 with emmc you need to flash the emmc on the waveshare board, the sd card slot will be disabled.  
Here’s a retropie image made for the uConsole just flash, boot, setup account, add roms.

> [@RetroPie 6.12.y for uConsole and DevTerm](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/retropie-for-uconsole-and-devterm-cm4/13572):
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> UPDATE: 6.12.22 Image Out of box support for the “new uConsole panel” that is shipping with new uConsoles. The CM3 currently does not work with the new panel though, just the CM4/5. RetroPie builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want. Features: Clockwor…