Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days/New features

There are many new features to the PSP version of the game that were not present in the orginal PS2 game.

Axel Mode
This seperate Storyline serves as a prequel to the main storyline, showing Axel's fall into poverty, and how his ambitions hamper his ability to provide for his family. All features of the main game are accessible here including the Item World, Dark World, and all shops. The story is four episodes long. To start the game from scratch instead of New Game +, the player must enter the following code at the Title Screen while highlighting the "Start" option. (Triangle button twice, Square button twice, Circle button twice, X button once. In that order!) A sucessful code will be followed by the "Showtime!" sound, as well as an altered intro.

DLC
The Playstation Network launched a host of characters from other games that were made avaliable to download from the Playstation store for use in the Japanese version of the game back when the game was first released in Japan. However, many of them suffered from glitches that included wonky movement, horrible sprites, and either silent or "buzzed-out" battle lines. These characters were taken down as of May 2010, but will be re-released on November 25, most bugs fixed. Players playing the English version may have received an error message while saving their game data saying that saving their data will prevent them from using the DLC. The error was caused by players saving their games on Memory Sticks lacking the content, and was a false alarm. Those receiving the error messages should ignore them. NIS Software received complaints, and has rended the game's first DLC Pack, which will include Sapphire, to be absolutely free as an apology. Until the release date, players receiving the messages should simply ignore them.

DLCs in the first pack will contain: Marona, Ash, Gig, Pram, Dark Eclair, Sapphire Rhondite, Almaz, Pram, Miabel (Protagonist from a future NIS title)

(List subject to change.)

Recruitables
The protagonists from Disgaea 3, as well as other prominent characters in the universe are avaliable for recruitment VIA new Extra Stages and Dark Assembly bills. The recruitables are:

Mao, Raspberyl, Mr. Champloo, Plenair, Captain Gordon, Mid-Boss, Priere, Marjoly