Hey,

I recently made the jump to linux. I wanted to sart PC gaming and figured I would start as I mean to go on.

I am having an issue with getting my ps5 controller connected. Steam recognises it, everything mapped fine. I open pcsx2 and it thinks its a dualshock 2. I cannot get it to work in game. I have remapped and everything but when I get to a menu, the D pad will work but selecting an option won’t.

Any advice appreciated.

  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I would guess that since it’s a PS2 emulator, then marking the pad as DS2 would make sense. But why buttons don’t work is a good question

    EDIT: what about the tester from here?

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    Do you have steam open at the same time? Steam will present a virtual pad to emulators/retroarch. You shouldn’t need to configure it manually.

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      Hey, thanks. After a bit of poking and getting annoyed, the fix was to open pcsx2 directly and not through steam. Dualsense was detected and I clicked automap. It was still under dualshock but it recognised to be mapped like a dualsense.

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    You shouldn’t need to remap anything. And PCSX2 should be able to tell that it’s a DS5.

    Are you sure you’re not mixing up the actual controller with what PCSX2 is pretending the controller is, which by default is a DS2 (this can be set to other stuff that isn’t a DS2, like a guitar hero controller).

    To configure an input device, you’d go into the controller settings, of course. There are separate settings for controller 1 and 2. In the top right of either, there should be a drop down for assigning a device to be that controller. That’s where you select the DS5.

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      Yes the top right was not showing it as an option. It showed mouse, keyboard and some SLI or three letter thing. Getting annoyed I just opened it without steam, directly into pcsx2 and it was now listed on that dropdown, and I was getting my ass kicked in MK in no time.