Button Mapping issue with CSD Pinone pinup popper and VPX.

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I am upgrading a cab that I stripped down and rebuilt with a whole new builders set up and SSF set up from CSD. I have the 10selonoids, the SSF, the plunger and of course the Pinone itself.

 

I am getting close, but having real issues with the mapping. 
 

The machine was actually running before I upgraded everything, but the tech I had help me used joytokey and the new board used DirectX.

 

I have set the calibration settings but I cannot get the buttons to work at all in VPX without running joytokey and if I do, only some of them work and playing a game is impossible. 
 

I have followed every documented step, but I know that JoyToKey should not be necessary, but somehow it is. 
 

I believe my firmware for the pinone is up to date,  but if I run it again it errors out. I run the manual install after hitting the reset and that works. 
 

I would love to be playing by now and I just cannot figure out why the simple mappings are not working. I have validated that the USB controller is seeing all of my buttons and mapped them and pinup popper directly. When I launch popper only the left and right buttons and enter buttons on the keyboard work. I also set the exit button on the keyboard and that works some of them time, but otherwise I have to restart the computer. 
 

any advice? Any questions that would help you help me? I am truly lost.