Persona 4 Golden Access v2.0.0

The game has now been played through from start to finish with the mod, so this release is about everything that came out of that.

• Every dungeon in the game is now named and labelled.
• Cutscene descriptions for the whole story, including the Golden and true endings.
• Fixed the heaviness that showed up in some menus.
• A guide is now built into the mod — open the settings menu, go to Help, then Guide. It walks you to the true ending without spoiling the story.
• Shadows now tell you what they are — an ordinary shadow, a strong one, or a golden hand.
• Lots of smaller fixes and improvements throughout.

Note: the mod currently only works with the game's language set to English.

Installing

Download the zip below and follow the README inside — it includes Reloaded II and every mod needed, and the install needs no menus or mouse.

Updating from an older version

Close the game, then copy the p4g.golden.access folder from Mods in this zip over the one you already have, overwriting it.

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.5.0

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.5.0 — a screen-reader accessibility mod for the Steam version of Persona 4 Golden. Download the zip below, unzip, and follow the README to install.

This release brings everything since the last public build (v1.3.5) together.

What's new

• New in-game accessibility settings menu (F1, or LT+RT+Start on a controller) — change any setting and read the help & tips.
• Rebuilt dungeon wall sensing — a wall hum tells you how close walls are (toggle with N, or LT+RT+Y), plus four-direction wall sounds so you can feel corridors and turns by ear.
• Smarter auto-walk in dungeons and around town.
• New camera view for the H cursor (Shift+N, or LT+R3) — move the cursor the way the camera faces, like walking; switch between camera and compass mode with the same keys.
• All dungeon floors are now named to match what's on screen.
• Dialogue backlog — when you open the game's conversation log, each earlier line is now read aloud as you scroll through it.
• The TV Listings menu is now accessible.
• You can now read full weapon and armor details in the equipment menu.
• Social Links: rank-ups now match the screen, the "new bond" intro is read, and the finish/max message is read.
• When you learn the skill to see enemy skills, they now show on the enemy panel.
• The menu to rewatch maxed Social Links is now accessible.
• You can now see how many skills a fused Persona can inherit.
• The party-member "remember a skill" menu is now accessible.
• Added event marks in more dungeons.
• The beacon plays at a lower pitch when the target is behind you.
• In battle, ; and ' now cycle only active members (outside battle you still see everyone).
• Fixed buffs sometimes reading wrong in battle.
• Fixed the skill name when learning a skill from a Social Link rank-up.
• Fixed random text that could leak during play.
• Fixed reading of the Japanese spaces.
• Fixed the value reading in the config menu.
• Changed the "read NPC ID" key from ; to F2.
• Added and improved many other smaller things.

Note: the mod currently only works with the game's language set to English.

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.3.5

Note: the mod currently only works with the game's language set to English.

What's new in 1.3.5

• Fixed two causes of random game crashes — if the game was crashing on you, this update is the fix
• Rebuilt Shuffle Time to be far more stable — skipping the animation now works, cards read their rank, and changed cards announce themselves
• Fixed the reversed school sound beacon
• Added the three new fusion types (Cross, Pentagon and Hexagon) and the Fusion Forecast
• View Compendium personas now read their real skills and their description
• Added the ally persona details in the camp Status menu
• Improved battle reading — SP costs, the enemy critical buff, fixed agility debuffs and weakness spoilers
• More named characters, and more small fixes and improvements

To install: download the zip below and follow the README inside. To update from an older version: close the game, then copy the p4g.golden.access folder from the zip's Mods folder over your existing one in Reloaded II's Mods folder.

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.3.0

The biggest update yet — new navigation comfort features, remembered settings, a wave of battle information, and important fixes.

What's new

• The "Quick interact" menu — press Shift+F (keyboard) or LT + X (controller) in a supported place to hear a list of its important objects; pick one and you're taken straight to it, ready to press and interact. Works in your room, the Dojima living room (save point, fridge, the garden), and Shopping District North (Aiya Chinese Diner, the bulletin board). More places will be added over time.
• Your settings are now remembered — the dialogue reader / voice mode, cutscene subtitles and cutscene descriptions keep their on/off state across restarts.
• Shop equipment details — weapons and armor in shops read their stats and compare them with what's equipped ("Attack 88, up 11"), plus any special effect.
• Much more battle information — whose turn it is; the targeted enemy's discovered weakness or resistance (no spoilers); attack, defense, agility and critical-rate buffs and debuffs; Power Charge and Mind Charge; the Rage status; and all-target skills summarize how many enemies are weak or resistant.
• Battle character keys — Shift+O (or RT + left stick click) reads the currently acting character's status; ; and ' (or RT + the shoulder buttons) cycle through your allies.
• Shuffle Time reads fully — changed card names and how many cards you can take.
• The Social Link details screen reads — the blurb and each member's bio.
• New dungeon helpers — an "All doors" navigation category; doors you've been through announce as "Open door"; the P sound beacon now also works inside dungeons pointing at your selected target; and a thud sound when you walk into a wall.

Fixes

• Save slots read correctly when Steam is installed in a non-default location (was "unknown").
• Learned interaction spots and dungeon marks now survive restarts (they used to quietly reset).
• The bookstore sometimes going silent; scrolled lists reading the wrong book; the camp Skill/Item menus reading the wrong members after a party change; the skill-replace screen reading the wrong new skill.
• The dungeon cursor works on the controller again after battles.
• The third dungeon's stairs work with navigation like the first two.

Stability tip

If your game crashes now and then, turn off the Steam Overlay for this game (Steam → right-click Persona 4 Golden → Properties → uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"). We traced most random crashes to the overlay clashing with the mod framework — the game is much more stable without it.

Install / update

New players: download the zip below and follow its README. Updating from an older version: close the game, then copy the p4g.golden.access folder from the zip's Mods folder over your existing one (see "How to update" in the README).

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.2.0

A screen-reader accessibility mod for Persona 4 Golden (Steam). Download the zip below — it includes the mod, every mod it needs, and the Reloaded II installer. See the README inside for install steps.

What's new in 1.2.0

• Anime cutscenes are now accessible — the on-screen subtitles are read aloud (Shift+,), and optional hand-authored descriptions of the visuals play in sync (Shift+.).
• Difficulty descriptions — each difficulty now reads its full description when starting a new game.
• In-game tutorial bubbles that appear at the right moments to help new players.
• The Quest menu now reads — moving through quests reads the selected quest's description.
• Name entry says "Cap" before capital letters and reads symbols correctly.
• Dialogue choices are read reliably, with a sound cue when choices appear.
• The overworld place beacon is now stereo and positional.
• Fixed: the restricted pause menu at the start of a new game, some character labels, the book menu and skill-card Persona panel, and the second dungeon (Steamy Bathhouse) stairs and battles.
• The phone Calendar is now readable, and the weather report (and M key) is now accurate.
• Plus more quality-of-life fixes.

Full controls and install/update steps are in the README inside the download.

Persona 4 Golden Access v1.1.0

Screen-reader accessibility mod for Persona 4 Golden (Reloaded II). Speaks the game through NVDA / SAPI and adds blind-playable dungeon + overworld navigation.

What's new in 1.1.0

• Focus gate (no shortcuts/sounds while alt-tabbed), full controller support, and "Dojima" reads correctly at game start.
• Speech history (Shift+[ / Shift+] / Shift+P) and a dialogue auto-read toggle (Shift+M).
• Rebuilt compass-based dungeon navigation — stairs auto-walk that opens doors on the way, an H mapping cursor with walk/look modes, and an "event door" marker for the first dungeon's 5F.
• Rebuilt overworld navigation — smoother school walking, a self-learning interaction-spot system, and fixed Japanese interactable names.

Install

Download the zip below, extract it, and follow README.md. Recommended: create a desktop shortcut via Reloaded II's "Create Shortcut" and launch the game from that (more reliable than launching from Steam).

Requires NVDA (or a SAPI voice) and Reloaded II. All dependency mods are bundled in the zip.