Maximus vs Mame Nightmare!!!!

[cheko]

All right this is the problem guys, I have Maximus 2.92 and Mame32 0.83 and I can't make it to work, the mame games work by themselves but when its time to run it through Maximus, just a black screen comes up, and that is it, I press the esc key and it take me back to the game list menu. I already configured the SNES and it works wonderful, I already tried with many versions of MAME without a result, please help, I'm a newbie and everything else it seems to be awesome except this thing, I apreciate any help or lead that anyone can give me.

[werdna]

Do you have a license for Maximus?  If not it is worth noting that the author doesn't appear to be selling new licenses or supporting the product any longer. 

[mgb]

Not sure if this helps but it sounds like a similar problem.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,120313.0.html