Disgaea: Hour of Darkness

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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness

Region NTSC-U:
Serial numbers: SLUS-20666
Release date: 08/27/03
CRCs: 4D2CAC9D
Windows Status: Playable
Linux Status: Playable
Mac Status: Playable
Region PAL:
Serial numbers: SLES-52458
Release date: 05/28/04
Windows Status: ?
Linux Status: ?
Mac Status: ?
Region NTSC-J:
Serial numbers: SLPS-20251
Release date: 01/30/03
Windows Status: Playable
Linux Status: ?
Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Nippon Ichi Software
Genre: Strategy, RPG, Adventure
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgaea:_Hour_of_Darkness
Game description: Roundbased tactic game with funny cutszenes and crazy ways of improving characters and equipment

an anime of the game exists called Makai Senki Disgaea

Test configuration on Windows:

PCSX2 version: 0.9.8
Graphics by GSDX: r4600
Sound by SPU2-X: r4600
Pad plugin is LilyPad: r4510
BIOS version: USA v02.00


Test configuration on Linux:

PCSX2 version: 1736
Graphics by ZZogl: 182
Sound by SPU2-X: untested


PC specs used to test the game:

CPU: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 (1.8GHz)
GPU: Geforce 7600GT

Comments: System requirements are minimal, almost all modern video cards meet the requirements for the game.

Known Issues:

Scaling glitches

Using resolutions higher than native can give minimal glitches

  • Solution: Using the Native option in GSdx and/or disabling Texture filtering helps too.

Hang in r3878

In the emulator version 0.9.7 (specifically, build r3878), the game hangs shortly into the intro cutscene of the second map of Stellar Graveyard II ("Core Point No. 4"). Music continues playing, but neither the party in the background nor Kurtis descending in the foreground are visible, and the game will not continue pass this point.

  • Solution: Upgrading the emulator to build 4600 fixes this.

- Note: In a previous playthrough using emulator version 0.9.4 with the exact same PS2 disc, there were no problems here. It seems only to affect r3878.