Need help with Maximus - noob

[manderko]

Hey guys,

So I just purchased a pre-built cabinet from the X-arcade guys and the PC came loaded with the MA front-end. I went into preferences (ctrl+p) to switch my mame version by switching the pathway for the emu and the roms...switched the scan to "long pathway", and added ".7z" to the scan. I force a re-scan, close out, and everything works great.

The problem is every time I turn my PC off it reverts back to the old pathway originally designated by the x-arcade guys. It isn't just with mame either. Whenever I add another emu, ie JNes and put NES in the display order, it works great...until I restart and it loads right back into the original setting it was sent with.

The only thing I can think of is that they briefly mentioned updating a setting if my computer updates to Windows 8.1...It was set to auto update and I don't know if this issue was happening before so I have no basis of comparison...

sorry if this is a stupid topic but It is such a pain in the ass to keep doing the pathway switch every single time I turn on my cabinet. Thanks for any help in advance and have a great day!!

Mark

[thomas_surles]

Try going to the preferences.exe rather than the ctr p. There is frequently issues when doing so.

[JDFan]

Try going to the preferences.exe rather than the ctr p. There is frequently issues when doing so.

+1 -- also make sure that windows didn't for some reason make the files or entire folder read only so that it is not actually writing the changes you are making to the HDD.

[thomas_surles]

Try going to the preferences.exe rather than the ctr p. There is frequently issues when doing so.

+1 -- also make sure that windows didn't for some reason make the files or entire folder read only so that it is not actually writing the changes you are making to the HDD.

That's a good one too. Happens to me all the time. Not on my make computer but on my personal laptop.