Is Retropie right for me? Are there alternatives?

[ubernub]

@BuZz http://pastebin.com/jP5jqWSp

[BuZz]

for some reason usbmount doesn't like it - did it mount ok manually ?

what is the output of sudo parted /dev/sda print ?

[ubernub]

@BuZz

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: Samsung Portable SSD T1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.8kB 500GB 500GB primary boot

[BuZz]

It is not NTFS. It is exfat formatted

try this

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

and try the mount commands again.

or use FAT32/NTFS

[ubernub]

@BuZz That worked! I can mount it now, but how do I get it to see the roms on it?

[BuZz]

Did you read this https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive
?

[ubernub]

@BuZz Thank you! That fixed the rest of it. I had to change the filesystem to exfat-fuse instead of vfat but otherwise it worked perfectly. :)