🎮 Ever since I started playing Radiata Stories, I always wanted to control the Cairn vs Kelvin (Water Dragon) fight. The game never made it possible... so I made it happen myself!!!

🎬 The battle so many people always wanted to play, the one that was "just an intro movie", is now 100% playable! After the intro cutscene, the fight begins and you take on the role of Cairn, using all of his abilities. ⚔️

When the fight ends, the game continues normally, right back into the Adele scene we all know.

🕹️ For now this mod runs on PCSX2 (and according to some community members, it also works on Nethersx2/AetherSX2, though it still needs some tweaking). 🔜 Soon, more cutscenes will become playable during events too (Cross and Dynas vs Baade, the Earth Dragon). 👀

I hope all this brings a new experience to those who play and attracts new players!

Video is in the comments 👇

I have been modding Radiata Stories on the PCSX2 prototype build for a while, and since this sub gave the easter-egg collection so much love, I figured I would gather my mods into one collection too. All free, cheats only, no ISO.

1. Save anywhere

Save in the field without tripping the story scenes. Really handy around Jack's home, where saving normally pulls you into a cutscene.

2. Play as any character in battle

Swap the controlled character with R2. When you leave Jack he keeps fighting on AI, so the whole party stays active instead of standing around.

3. Party without Jack

Remove Jack and run any four characters, including a full mage party. This one used to freeze the game on the battle transition. I tracked the cause down, and it is stable now.

4. Play as the superbosses

The full 200+ roster is unlockable, Ethereal Queen and Gabriel Celesta included. You can take them into normal battles.

5. Weapon forge

The game has blacksmiths but never actually lets you forge anything. So I built a forge from scratch: buy a scroll at the counter and the weapon lands in your bag.

6. Expanded shops and cut characters

NPC shops carry a lot more now (weapons, wards, lore books), and several cut characters can be recruited into the Friend Book.

7. Per-member inventory

Each party member gets their own bag, and you can move items between them freely. Plus a few smaller quality-of-life extras.

Everything runs on the PCSX2 prototype build, CRC E0C6CF4C. It shares the same serial as retail (SLUS-21262), so check the CRC in PCSX2, not the serial. You need to own the game.

Download and a few gameplay videos are in the comments. Happy to go into how any of them work, a lot of it was reverse engineering the debug build.

Follow up on the mods I've been posting here. The battle system work is done: every character in the prototype build (200+) is now fully playable, with free swapping mid fight. That includes the ones the game never lets you touch: Ethereal Queen, Gabriel Celesta, Cairn, Lezard, and every mage. Everyone else keeps fighting when you swap.

Inventory sharing between party members is also working now.

Short video of Ethereal Queen and Gabriel Celesta fighting on the player's side: https://youtu.be/WSYIKbEHcEQ

Runs on the May 2005 prototype (CRC E0C6CF4C), not retail. Porting to retail (US and JP) for real hardware is the next big step. Not released yet, still testing, it goes out in the Discord first.

Who would you main with the full roster unlocked?

You know all those blacksmiths who never really do anything for you? Turns out the game was built with a weapon forge that got cut before release — it's not in the retail version, and it's not in the prototype either.

So I rebuilt it.

Here's how it works: gather the materials for a recipe and head to one of the four forges — Warc, Dyvad, Brockle or Gehrmann. Buy the forge scroll from the shop, and if you've got everything you need, the weapon is crafted automatically and drops straight into your inventory. No menus, nothing to fiddle with — it just works like it always should have. 14 recipes, plus one secret weapon.

Short demo (57s): https://youtu.be/noM8VgLcMG8

The patch isn't out yet — still finishing tests. It will be available here once it's 100% ready.

(And no, I don't share the game itself — use your own copy.)

What else do you think should have made it into the final game?

Hey everyone! Long-time Radiata fan here — I've started making mods for the game, and this is my first one.

It lets you save anywhere, not just at Save Points. And the important part: you can load those saves too — save, quit, come back, right where you left off. No catch.

Right now it runs on PCSX2 (emulator). I'm currently working on a PS2 ISO build so you'll be able to play it on real hardware too — more on that soon.

Big shoutout to Radiata_Mods for the inspiration — seriously, go check out their stuff, it's amazing (they're behind the Re:MiX project).

Short demo: youtu.be/1l_KTiWJjiU

And this is just the start — I've got more quality-of-life and gameplay mods in the works.

What mods would YOU want to see for Radiata? Drop your ideas below — I genuinely want to build stuff the community actually wants.