Unfortunately that did not seem to work.
I get this error

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo emulationstation
/usr/bin/emulationstation: line 9: 3459 Segmentation fault ./emulationstation

hey, thanks a lot I will try that, should have thought of that already. Hopefully it works.

So, I have used this script following the guide at petrockblog. It seems to have installed everything as far as I can tell. I am a total noob here so I don't know what information is relevant. Anyway, when I attempt to run emulationstation from the console on the pi I get a black screen. If I am ssh...