Hello ugghh I can't get my PS4 controller to work with Emulators!

[Eldagusto]

Hello Everyone I'm Eldagusto.  I haven't played with emulators in years and I spent all night trying to relearn, boy the technology sure got better.  But I figured how to patch and all that but man non of my emulators are working with my PS4 controller!  My controller works on steam, I turn of steam, and the emulators all I think recognize I have a controller plugged in (some point out they recognize its a wireless PS4) but when I open up the games it doesn't work! I tried three different emulators for the playstation and I tried the PSP for War of the Lions.  Non of it works.  I even downloaded Retroarch uninstalled it and downloaded it again, and it worked even worse then before, like I think it somehow lost the bios.  I'm tired having spent all night trying to figure this out...    I just want to enjoy my lil Ramza story on my laptop instead of draining my phone batter... oh and try out these cool mods...     Haaaylp!


PS. I'm sorry if this is a regular issue I'm new hear and I saw the tutorial but I didn't see a controller issue problem...