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Maximus Arcade - Frontend for MAME + Other Emulators $4.99USD with Coupon (Usually $25USD)

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Maximus Arcade - Frontend for MAME + Other Emulators $4.99USD with Coupon (Usually $25USD)
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cmdwedge on 16/12/2015 - 09:31 maximus-arcade.com (492 clicks)
Last edited 16/12/2015 - 10:41
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Maximus Arcade are currently having a special on their very polished MAME (and other emulators) frontend. Great if you're building a MAME PC for sticking in your loungeroom or an arcade cabinet.

Software is usually $25USD to unlock, and they currently have a sale on charging only $9.99USD. I started the checkout process a week ago but got distracted, and now they've emailed me a $5 coupon code, which halves the price again to $4.99USD. 80% off!

Even if you're thinking about getting around to building an emulation PC one day, it's a bargain today and you can play around with it when you're ready.

EDIT: I got the code wrong! It's maxicode.

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  • britta on 16/12/2015 - 09:33

    Awesome piece of software!!! Been using for years.
    Highly recommended

    • SuperMatty on 16/12/2015 - 10:28
      +1

      Have you ever needed support for it? I click on "Support" on the main page and you get "Whoops! Something has gone wrong."

      If you go to the forums, the last post looks like April 2013.

      I'm not that keen on buying this kind of product if they shut down support and forums over 2 years ago…

      EDIT: more discussion from a year ago here on reddit - seems like it's a decent product, but no support and no ongoing development. Happy to be proven wrong though! Might be worth $5 but good to know what you're getting.

      • britta on 16/12/2015 - 11:30

        Cant say I have ever had an issue with it. Just works.

        I purchased it sometime ago (10 years+).

  • bernietoast on 16/12/2015 - 09:40

    ill go for this, have been using gameex for a long time, would like to see what this is like.

    Thanks OP

  • TZK on 16/12/2015 - 09:48

    I was hoping MA might have been updated, but it's still on 2.10

  • rhangman on 16/12/2015 - 09:52

    Running MaLa here. Don't really see any reason to pay for an alternative.

    • megaton on 16/12/2015 - 11:14

      Same here, tried them both and Mala was better

  • dzhay on 16/12/2015 - 09:56

    Looks like crap compared to Hyperspin.

    • KRiSX on 16/12/2015 - 10:21

      isn't hyperspin a pain in the arse though? I see that you have to have your roms in a particular layout or something for it to work? mind you i've done very little looking into it…

      • AnotherRat on 16/12/2015 - 11:13

        Like all of them, there is a special way to configure but I have done it a few times and whilst time consuming it isn't too bad and the forums are good at helping out.

  • mshanann on 16/12/2015 - 10:33

    Code didn't work for me

    maxiarcade

    This code did not match any active gift card or discount. Was it entered correctly?

    • ScottyP on 16/12/2015 - 10:38

      Yep, code not working here either. Same error.

      • cmdwedge on 16/12/2015 - 10:42
        +1

        Apologies to you both, the proper code is maxicode. I blame this on my current fever.

        • ScottyP on 16/12/2015 - 10:45

          That's done it. Fevers…yeah, I hear ya. Cheers mate.

  • jollster101 on 16/12/2015 - 12:33

    I am in the middle of building a bartop arcade which I was planning on throwing a rpi2 into. I see this piece of software is windows only so that counts me out.

    Out of curiosity though, what is the smallest of small form factor windows based kit that could be used to re-produce a decent retro arcade feel?

    Given its a bartop I don't want to be throwing an old 386 into it and going for a NUC is overkill and too expensive.

    Cheers

    • dzhay on 16/12/2015 - 13:10
      +1

      Depending on the games you want to run, any of those little windows 8 sticks/boxes ought to do the job.

      • jollster101 on 16/12/2015 - 13:48
        +1

        It would be the old classics in reality…..any indications as to which games would be more dependant on something gruntier than the sticks you mentioned?

        • dzhay on 16/12/2015 - 15:00

          Anything post 2000? Any post cps2/neo-geo hardware might be problematic.. Any of the 3d systems (Sega Model 2, Atomiswave, possibly the cave pc-bsaed systems? etc) might be problematic, although I've not played around with them to know for sure.

        • rhangman on 16/12/2015 - 15:17

          Yeah, anything 3D runs like crap since it is all emulated on the CPU. MAME is all about accuracy. As hardware gets faster, the devs take advantage of that to make the emulation more accurate. That's why the ARM, etc. ports are based on old code.

    • Darkscythe on 16/12/2015 - 14:07
      +1

      Any of the cheap Windows Mini PCs that I review on my site would do the job. I'd look at something like the Beelink Pocket P1 for something that's super compact but performs well.

    • Mossy on 16/12/2015 - 22:08

      Man, stick with the rpi2 and drop RetroPie onto it. Job done.

      • jollster101 on 17/12/2015 - 07:01

        That was always the plan and what I expect to still do. Always curious about other options but for the price and performance of the pi2 I will stick with the original plan.

  • bchliu on 16/12/2015 - 14:43

    I use MAME64UI with the UI inbuilt anyway..

    http://www.mameui.info/

    works fine for me.. Not sure if I'd pay $25 or even $10 or $5 for the frontend.. (got to be damn good to deserve money IMO when there's tons of free ones out there).

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