Maiko

Play The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard natively on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Requires your own copy of Redguard. Your executable stays on this device.

NativeRuns as a normal program on your system. No DOSBox.
PrivateYour RGFX.EXE is turned into the game right here in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
OriginalThe original menus, movies, music and saves, plus gamepad support.

Build your package

Choose your system

Windows64-bit · Windows 10 or newer Linux64-bit · glibc 2.36+ · X11/XWayland macOSmacOS 11+ · Apple Silicon / Intel

Add your original RGFX.EXE

It is in your Redguard installation folder. Maiko accepts the GOG and CD builds of this file and build 5.0 from the 1998 demo.

Glide version only. Maiko needs RGFX.EXE, the 3dfx Glide version of the game. The Steam release ships only RG.EXE, the software-rendered version, and does not work with Maiko.

Choose RGFX.EXE or drop it hereOnly this one file is needed.

Version 5 fixesAdds the bug fixes of the later build 5.0 executable: no rope grab while dying, no stutter when falling off a ledge, no crash on unbound object textures, voiceless dialogue lines shown as subtitles, and more. Off by default.

What version 5 changes

Build and download

Build log

Once your ZIP is ready

Extract the ZIP into its own folder, anywhere you can write to. Not into your game folder.
Double-click Maiko.exe, the launcher. It looks for your game on its own, in the usual GOG folders among others. If it cannot find it, it asks once for the folder that contains RGFX.EXE and remembers your choice. Then it shows Redguard's original start window, drawn from your own REDGUARD.EXE; set fullscreen and other options under Game Options.
Click Play Redguard. The original book menu opens. Choose New Game or Continue.

Options such as fullscreen are listed in the README. Prefer the terminal? Use the Rust command-line tool.

Once your Mac ZIP is ready

Extract the ZIP into its own folder.
Open maiko, the launcher, and click Play Redguard. Select your owned Redguard installation if asked. The ZIP contains the runtime; you supply the game files.
If macOS blocks the download, open Terminal and remove quarantine from the extracted folder:
```
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "$HOME/Downloads/maiko-macos-universal"
```
Adjust the path if you extracted it elsewhere, then open maiko again.

Read the Mac launch guide for details.

Saves, settings and logs

Every version keeps your saves and settings in a user-data folder and writes a log of each start. Your game folder is never changed. If something goes wrong, attach the newest log to an issue.

System	Saves and settings	Logs
Windows	`user-data` next to `redguard-native.exe`	`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Maiko\logs`
Linux	`user-data` next to `redguard-native`	`~/.local/state/maiko/logs`
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support/Maiko/user-data`	`~/Library/Logs/Maiko`