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Maximus Arcade Super Questions / Personal Setup Thread
djlunchbox:
So seeing as a lot of the same answers to question are "get a new frontend", I'm hoping to keep this thread at the top to answer all questions I can about Maximus Arcade SetUp. I've currently converted over to MA from Raspberry Pi/Retropie as I want to play high demand games in my bartop and seeing as I had a 2tb drive filled with roms and Hyperspin plus an Alienware Alpha i7 mini PC just gathering dust. I tried HS, nope. Launchbox/BigBox yeah they cool but $50? plus to d/l videos and images for themes, takes way to much time. Plus I noticed alot of arcade bartop builders from Europe and Central/South America were heavily using MA. Then I d/l and found it why, its EASY and it works.
So seeing as the MA forum is dead and this forum wants to not help I'll go ahead and outline my progress on what I've gotten to setup, work and answer questions. With not a lot of help in the interwebz and most videos i've found in Spanish or Portugese I figure I'd help out.
Here's My current set up with corresponding emulator and version. Since MA hasn't been updated in awhile newer emulator version Don't seem to work:
Atari 2600 - Stella 5.1.3
NES - JNes 1.2.1
SNES - Zsnesw
N64 - Project 64 1.6 (newest version kept giving me the black fullscreen error when launching)
Sega MasterSystem - K.Fusion
Sega Genesis/MegaDrive - Gens
PC Games - Stand alone. Create shortcuts for your PC Games exe file, rename how you want them to appear in menu, place them all in a folder then link the folder in the ROMS path option when setting up Batch Files.
Future Pinball - Stand Alone. Get it to run in your PC then link exe Need to use JoyToKey
Visual Pinball - Stand Alone. Need to use JoyToKey
For reference running this on an alienware alpha i7 pc. My bartop is using Xin Mo controls and most EMUs capture it so once I set them up outside of MA, they work great.
Future Plans -
Stand alone Pinball Fx2 so you can launch directly into a table and not the PBFX menu.
Taito Type X
MAME of course
NeoGeo
Playstation 1
Naomi
Dreamcast
Sega M2 & 3
Zinc
Handhelds(GB, GBA, neogeo pocket)
Once finished I'll be adjusting existing themes and maybe creating up some new ones. MA ain't dead y'all
Titchgamer:
MA has not been updated in a while because its dead, It wont get updated again so you will constantly limited to old emus etc.
So in my true historical form I will say....
Get a new FE
JDFan:
How long have you had MA - And did you get the permanent activation code e-mailed to you or are you still on the trial ?? ( or did you download a pirated torrent ? ) For the last 6 months or more no one seems to be getting an activation code sent to them so after 60 days they run into problems - which would pretty much mean it is DEAD !
djlunchbox:
--- Quote from: Titchgamer on August 01, 2018, 03:10:50 pm ---MA has not been updated in a while because its dead, It wont get updated again so you will constantly limited to old emus etc.
So in my true historical form I will say....
Get a new FE
--- End quote ---
Again why do i need it to be updated? It works perfectly fine for me in 2018 on a computer made in 2016. Do i need more graphical bells and whistles? That's personal preferences. The hyperMax theme I have looks awesome to me and game selection is good too. If the emulators still emulate, do I really need to update them? Especially if my PC is offline.
--- Quote from: JDFan on August 01, 2018, 03:11:44 pm ---How long have you had MA - And did you get the permanent activation code e-mailed to you or are you still on the trial ?? ( or did you download a pirated torrent ? ) For the last 6 months or more no one seems to be getting an activation code sent to them so after 60 days they run into problems - which would pretty much mean it is DEAD !
--- End quote ---
I got it like last week thursday. Yeah i got the code emailed to me. Paid the $5 on the site via paypal and got a keycode emailed to me in like a few minutes i think.
Titchgamer:
--- Quote from: djlunchbox on August 01, 2018, 03:28:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Titchgamer on August 01, 2018, 03:10:50 pm ---MA has not been updated in a while because its dead, It wont get updated again so you will constantly limited to old emus etc.
So in my true historical form I will say....
Get a new FE
--- End quote ---
Again why do i need it to be updated? It works perfectly fine for me in 2018 on a computer made in 2016. Do i need more graphical bells and whistles? That's personal preferences. The hyperMax theme I have looks awesome to me and game selection is good too. If the emulators still emulate, do I really need to update them? Especially if my PC is offline.
--- Quote from: JDFan on August 01, 2018, 03:11:44 pm ---How long have you had MA - And did you get the permanent activation code e-mailed to you or are you still on the trial ?? ( or did you download a pirated torrent ? ) For the last 6 months or more no one seems to be getting an activation code sent to them so after 60 days they run into problems - which would pretty much mean it is DEAD !
--- End quote ---
I got it like last week thursday. Yeah i got the code emailed to me. Paid the $5 on the site via paypal and got a keycode emailed to me in like a few minutes i think.
--- End quote ---
Its nothing to do with playing online.
MAME (being the biggest culprit here) is updated every month adding in new games and putting bug fixes on older ones.
You may also have trouble with other emulators (CPS1&2 possibly cant remember)
Can Maximus still work yeah sure.
But its like talking out a old Ford KA when you have a new Audi A8 in the garage.
Hyperspin is a ---smurfette--- to set up no arguments there but its also very powerful, fully supported and updated.
You can make it as simple or complex as you want and there are tons of setup videos on youtube as well as a excellent support forum.
I used to run Maximus for years so I know how good it used to be.
But now its just not.
Its dead, Move on.
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