How do you activate the true ending in persona four?

Answer 1

You have to make the right choices on December 3rd. Don't throw him to the TV!

If you wanna kniow them here they are:

"Wait a second here..."

"We're missing something..."

"Namatame's true fellings"

"Something's bothering me"

"We're missing something"

"Calm the hell down!"

After that and some talk you continue the month and you will find the true culprit then, as usual, go to the dungeon defeat boss.Time will pass until its March 20, this day you have to talk to all the social links you've maxed, after finishing talking to them don't go back home!

Go to Junes again, all your friends will gather and youll talk and discover some things and then youll find out who was really behind all this, just go to where they tell you,(talk to dojima, then go to the velvet room after that it'll be raining and you have to go to the gas station, youll have to ask some questions) then youll have to go to the TV for the last time (You can shop even though your inside, just got to the 3 TV's) and like usual, dungeon, defeat boss, enjoy true ending.

I might've miss some details...sorry >_>

Answer 2

Firstly you need to avoid the incomplete ending, which can happen after you defeat Kunino-Sagiri in the Heaven dungeon. Your party will argue over throwing Taro Namatame into the TV, if you fail to stop them, they will do so and the game will end. Nanako will die, and time will skip to early next year, with your character leaving for home.

However if you do manage to calm your friends down, you'll realise that Namatame was not the culprit responsible for the first two deaths. He actually made the connection between the victims appearing on the TV, and their deaths, and wrote to the authorities to warn them. Unfortunately the person he wrote to was the person you will realise is the true culprit, Tohru Adachi. So the game will continue.

1 - You get the 'normal' ending by completing each game section in turn, and defeating Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri before December 24th, time will pass into the new year, you'll say goodbye to everyone and leave on the train.

2 - You get the 'true' ending by choosing not to leave on the train. There is one mystery left to be solved, the origin of yours powers. You'll meet your friends at Junes and realise the first person you met in town was the petrol station clerk - who turns out to be the goddess Izanami. As part of an experiment of sorts, she gave the power to summon Personas to three outsiders, representing Hope (You), Despair (Namatame) and Emptiness (Adachi). You'll confront and fight her in her own realm, and achieve the true ending once you defeat her.

There are no S-link or other prerequisites for these endings.