@mitu Thank you for your quick response !

I forgot to mention before, when first posting i had installed xboxdrv, xpadneo and xpad.

I have uninstalled xboxdrv, restarted, and tried to connect with xpadneo and xpad installed. Only 2 of them worked (same result as before)

After this i had uninstalled xpadneo and xpad -> then installed xpadneo only -> restarted -> try connection -> still same result.

@mitu I purchased a a four player arcade cabinet set to the original Ninja Turtles four player set up. A joystick and two buttons for each player plus a credit button for each. Honestly I'm very new to this and I'm learning little by little

@chicuelo thank you. I will try to give this a go. I'm not the greatest with computers so I'm teaching myself as I go step by step