OK, thanks for testing! If the screen just remains black, I guess that means that no cartridge code is being run at all. (The first thing the cart code in v1.1 does, after making sure the VIC-II chip is enabled, it to set the border color to blue, and then it changes the color several times during the initial startup sequence.)
At least it's useful for me to know that although a cart image works as it should in the VICE emulator (with "MAX Machine" as the selected Model in Settings), that doesn't mean that it will work on an actual MAX Machine. (I'm assuming that everything about the physical cartridge itself, and the pinouts, are appropriate for the MAX in this instance.)