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Our forum moderator DeLuSioNaL has graciously created a video intro for Maximus Arcade!

Download the zipped WMV video!

Quick walk through of Matt Eschbach's MAME Arcade Machine, running the Maximus Arcade front end. Showing demos of both Donkey Kong and Dragon's Lair.

If you would like to share a video of your Maximus Arcade setup please contact us with your video location.

• Simple Interface Design
• Once configured - simple enough for children to control
• Filter out mature content from MAME game list
• Screensaver attraction mode launches games within emulators!
• Windows environment is hidden
• Universal exit switch to quit all emulators and return to selection mode
• Support for LEDWiz & LEDBlinky
• Support for snaps.zip, titles.zip, and marquees.zip
• Cursor replacement option
• Mirrored interface display support
• Pre-launch and post-launch an application before and after launching a game
• Launch an application upon startup and/or exit of the frontend
• Launch an application while within the frontend
• MAME history database support with popup window
• Incorporate into Windows Media Center
• Multiple key assignments
• Horizontal and vertical layout options for use on standard and cocktail style game play
• Works at 32, 16 & 8-bit resolutions
• Able to accept input from popular control panels (SlikStik, Ultimarc, etc..)
• Trackball and mice support
• Joystick/Gamepad support
• Extended Keyboard support
• Sensitivity controls for input devices
• Automatically generate MAME game lists based on genre, dimension, type, year, manufacturer, players, control, chd, and favorites.ini
• Create and modify multiple favorites list
• Use Regular Expressions to edit favorites lists
• Media caching and extended name filtering
• Change the display order of all emulators
• Ability to launch shortcuts and batch files

• Automatically generate batch files within the preferences panel
• OpenGL and Software driven transitions
• Adjust the scrolling acceleration rate
• Save multiple key configurations
• Import MAME key configurations
• Send multiple exit hook commands
• Ability to close specific and/or all processes launched during emulator execution
• WYSIWYG Theme Editor
• Supports png, jpg, gif, bmp, flv (flash video), and swf (flash) with transparency
• Resolutions including HDTV, EDTV, and common screen sizes
• Theme images imported are optimized based on selected resolution
• Command lines strings are automatically generated
• Customizable command line strings for emulator setup or for each individual game launch
• Advanced command line parameter variables available
• Display screenshots, movies, and marquees within the interface
• Screen capture ability during emulator execution
• Jump to a game alphabetically or a page at a time
• Uses ClrMAMEPro database files for Nebula, NeoGeo, Raine, WinKawaks, and ZINC emulators
• Uses MAME generated XML file for reference to unplayable games in MAME
• Can use MAME generated file 'favorites.ini' as a favorites list
• Adjust priority level of frontend while it is running as a background task
• Video support (avi, mpg, wmv, mng, flv - flash video)
• Background sound effects (wav, mp3)
• Background audio during game selection (mp3)
• Skip introduction option
• On screen volume adjustment
• Quick on screen emulator selection
• Access preferences panel externally or within the frontend