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.
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.
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.
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.