The "Initializing"-problem is probably a mame-problem.
Unfortunately you have not given your AM-configuration (your_AM-folder\emulators\your-emulator.txt).
Hi Hermine, thanks for the reply. Below is the text within that path. Also it is a .cfg not a .txt (not sure if the extension matters)
# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.6.1
#
executable C:\Users\me\Desktop\mame\mame64.exe
args [name]
workdir C:\Users\me\Desktop\attract-v2.6.1-win64\.
rompath C:\Users\me\Desktop\mame\roms/
romext .zip;.7z
system Arcade
info_source listxml
artwork marquee $HOME/mame/marquee
artwork snap $HOME/mame/video;$HOME/mame/snap