Replace all in-game text with Japanese?

[DurgB]

Hi everybody!

 

I'm an English speaker, trying to learn Japanese through immersion!

 

I want to play Fallout 4 completely in Japanese (Voice, Text, Subtitles).

 

Unfortunately, the Japanese version of Fallout 4 is very old - it's stuck at build 1.9.4. This means that, while the game CAN be played entirely in Japanese, most mods won't work with the game, and obviously, I ain't playing Fallout 4 without a bunch of mods!

 

I've managed to change the voices in the English version to Japanese by replacing the ba2 files, but all the text and subtitles are still in English.

 

I've scoured the web looking for answers and I think I'm SOL. I've already tried changing the language to 'ja' in the default ini file, but that just mixes random symbols into the game's English text. It seems like the archives don't contain the Japanese characters. I tried switching to French and it worked fine.

 

I've also tried a mod from Nexus which is meant to switch from one font of Japanese text to another, hoping it would replace the English font with the alternate Japanese font, but obviously, it relies on a much older version of F4SE and FO4, and doesn't work.

 

It seems like, without some new, text-replacing mod being released, I won't be able to accomplish this.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions or think it realistic that they could whip something up? I'm not very savvy with coding or mod creation in any way, otherwise I'd attempt it myself.

 

Thanks for any advice or input!