How to change language to Japanese

[giuskywalker]

I'm a japanese student that likes to use my time playing games to learn japanese at the same time, is there a way to change the langague of the game to japanese? When i'm in game i can select a lot of languages, but japanese is not appearing there, even chinese is for some reason, anybody knows how to add japanese?

[Krude]

Did you find out if you can put japanese voices on?

[KomdivCCCP]

Originally posted by Krude:

Did you find out if you can put japanese voices on?

Its only japanese voices in this game. He wants text to read.

[giuskywalker]

Originally posted by KomdivCCCP:

Originally posted by Krude:

Did you find out if you can put japanese voices on?

Its only japanese voices in this game. He wants text to read.

Yeah, exactly.

I have a theory that may work, inside of the game folder theres this folder path: OPPW4/LINKDATA/LANG

Inside of these, i can see a lot of language folders, these that follow:

ENG
ESE
ESM
FRA
GER
HAN
ITI
PLB
POL
RUS
SCH
TCH
THA

Maybe if some japanese player share the contents of a potential japanese folder we can select it inside of the game.

[Josou Kitsune]

The PC release isn't sold in Japan and doesn't include the Japanese files, you'll have to rip the PS4 files and port them to PC for a mod.

[giuskywalker]

Originally posted by Josou Kitsune:

The PC release isn't sold in Japan and doesn't include the Japanese files, you'll have to rip the PS4 files and port them to PC for a mod.

Are you sure? I just checked the steamdb and at least the game is appearing there if i change the site locale to jp, but you could be right

[KomdivCCCP]

According to PCGamingWiki - japanese text is only available in Windows store version.

[Shinyun226]

I know this is an old thread but if you're still interested I just purchased the Windows Store version which includes Japanese support and figured out how to port it over to the Steam version.
Here's the Japanese language files: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vaDjVB62TN5KXqW3QBNu3AQM-alNoJ1y/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to add Japanese to the language selection, so instead I had to replace one of the existing languages.

For just the text itself, you can simply replace the language files for one of the existing languages.
Unfortunately the title screen, menus etc aren't plain text and instead use entirely different graphics depending on language, so those require a bit more work
All of these files are stored in OPPW4\File\CMN\AssetRelease\RetailScreenLayout (with the Japanese ones ending in _08)
Basically you have to extract those (use qrdbtool or something), rename them to whatever language you want to replace (I personally replaced 12, which is simplified Chinese, so I replaced the _08 with _012 in each file name), then use OPPW4_PATCHER to replace the files when the game runs.

Lastly, is the DLC files which... are a pain in the ass lol. They're not named in any consistent way, so basically you have to manually find each one in both Japanese and the language you want to replace.

For example the Special Mission Log Title cards are:
JPN 0x382d413f.g1t SCH: 0x30c7e958.g1t ENG: 0x01d63578.g1t

The graphic that lists each DLC characters also has to be located this way. If anyone's interested, I can organize everything and share a spreadsheet with the files I found at some point.

Hopefully this helps

[giuskywalker]

Originally posted by Shinyun226:

I know this is an old thread but if you're still interested I just purchased the Windows Store version which includes Japanese support and figured out how to port it over to the Steam version.
Here's the Japanese language files: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vaDjVB62TN5KXqW3QBNu3AQM-alNoJ1y/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to add Japanese to the language selection, so instead I had to replace one of the existing languages.

For just the text itself, you can simply replace the language files for one of the existing languages.
Unfortunately the title screen, menus etc aren't plain text and instead use entirely different graphics depending on language, so those require a bit more work
All of these files are stored in OPPW4\File\CMN\AssetRelease\RetailScreenLayout (with the Japanese ones ending in _08)
Basically you have to extract those (use qrdbtool or something), rename them to whatever language you want to replace (I personally replaced 12, which is simplified Chinese, so I replaced the _08 with _012 in each file name), then use OPPW4_PATCHER to replace the files when the game runs.

Lastly, is the DLC files which... are a pain in the ass lol. They're not named in any consistent way, so basically you have to manually find each one in both Japanese and the language you want to replace.

For example the Special Mission Log Title cards are:
JPN 0x382d413f.g1t SCH: 0x30c7e958.g1t ENG: 0x01d63578.g1t

The graphic that lists each DLC characters also has to be located this way. If anyone's interested, I can organize everything and share a spreadsheet with the files I found at some point.

Hopefully this helps

Thanks a lot for this, ill be trying this later! And i am for sure interested in this spreadsheet, if you could share it.

[Shinyun226]

Originally posted by giuskywalker:

Thanks a lot for this, ill be trying this later! And i am for sure interested in this spreadsheet, if you could share it.

No prob.
Here's the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fBLdCzDJfwTv-ylUbl4EtrZLT4VJFVxrY_ebCbM6mug/edit?usp=sharing

The first 2 tabs include the respective file names for all relevant JPN and SCN files I ended up swapping (so everything that goes in OPPW4_PATCHER\ScreenLayout)
Also, added a language files tab that has the hex offset locations if you want to manually modify the .exe to point the game to the Japanese language files instead of replacing the SCN ones. (+ this method actually renames the language to 日本語 on the language selection screen in-game)