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Author Topic: Maximus Arcade doesn't work, after initial setup  (Read 6879 times)

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Maximus Arcade doesn't work, after initial setup
« on: January 10, 2021, 05:36:05 am »
Hi everyone,

Diffycult to explain, so I made a video, showing the errors I get, after the initial setup of Maximus Arcade. The video is here :


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Re: Maximus Arcade doesn't work, after initial setup
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2021, 01:05:35 am »
Try MAME 161 or earlier, like 149. Listxml format changed in 162. Someone else here mentions changes in 150.

Read this too, even though it talks about MALA.

Best solution: Don't use an unsupported/abandoned front end.

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Re: Maximus Arcade doesn't work, after initial setup
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2021, 06:02:01 pm »
Hi, I had the same problem, read this topic and solved (you can use google translate if you don't understand italian)

https://arcadeitalia.net/viewtopic.php?t=31186


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Re: Maximus Arcade doesn't work, after initial setup
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2021, 11:03:30 am »
I used MA a few years ago and it was fine.

I tried recently to get it setup with a more recent version of MAME and GM but MA doesn't work any more since MAME changed the format of it's .xmls.  It is also unsupported and hasn't been updated since the version I bought years ago.

I spent hours the other night trying to generate the correct xmls for MA but none of them worked and I could never get the frontend to launch without it getting stuck when it has to import the gameslist xml.

My solution was to move to the "Attract Mode" front end which I got setup and working in about 4 minutes including scraping everything and installing a really nice looking theme which looks incredible on my arcade cabinet running GroovyMAME.