[Solved] Donkey Kong not working in Maximus Arcade?

[DeLuSioNal29]

Hi all,

I'm having a strange issue with Donkey Kong (dkong.zip US SET 1) and I'm wondering if anyone can help.  For some odd reason, I cannot run Donkey Kong from within Maximus Arcade.  It will start to load the game when I press the button, but then goes to black and nothing.

-  Windows XP Pro
-  Instant Sheller is on to hide Windows
-  I'm running Mame32 .143
-  Maximus Arcade 2.10 Final
-  It works within Maximus if I use the original Mame.exe from .143 download.
-  It does not work within Maximus if I use the hi score and no nag version of mame.exe.

Now here's the kicker... It works outside of Maximus Arcade if I run mame.exe and type in dkong and run it.  Weird.

I tried the following to rectify it to no avail:
-  Changed the directory path in the setting from short to long (no effect)
-  Cleared the nvram folder in the mame directory (no effect)
-  Cleared the cache folder in the Maximus directory (no effect)
-  Rescanned the ROMS (no effect)
-  I tried adding dkong0.zip (US Set2) and running that.  Same deal.

Any ideas?  My last resort is to image the drive as a backup and then remove Instant Sheller to see if that is what's causing the issue.

Thanks in advance!

DeLuSioNaL29

[DeLuSioNal29]

Hi all,

After some trial and error I finally solved the issue.  It turns out that newer versions of MAME do not like the extra Maximus Arcade default commands in the command line box (in preferences).   

The default is:
%file -skip_gameinfo -nowindow

To solve it I removed -skip_gameinfo -nowindow from the command line and Voila, the game loaded!  I also noticed my games loaded a bit faster when you press a button to load the game from the menu.  I'm guessing the cause was the invalid syntax caused by Maximus and MAME.

I'll keep this up for others to learn from.   

DeLuSioNaL29