Hey everyone, happy holidays and all that.
This has come up before for those intrepid max users out there like myself having to keep an older copy of Max installed. Long ramble short, I literally just commented out an offending line (when in doubt, comment it out) and rezipped the MD5 exporter from 'Jonathan "BeRSeRKeR' Garcia" and it seems to work. So far only tested with 2016. It just takes a long time to export (meshes) but if anyone else want to try it out, it's attached here. Didn't test camera exporter.
Updated the tools sticky with this.