How to play Ace Combat: Northern Wings on Mac
Game summary
Ace Combat: Northern Wings brings Ace Combat to the retro top-down shooter genre. Players take control of Grendel 1, a pilot serving the secretive Kingdom of Nordennavic. The country officially maintains neutrality throughout the events of past Ace Combat games, but sends Grendel 1 to covertly influence their outcomes. Developed on Java, Northern Wings is the second Ace Combat game playable on mobile devices after Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion.
First released: Dec 2011
Play Ace Combat: Northern Wings on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Ace Combat: Northern Wings on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
Ace Combat: Northern Wings installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Ace Combat: Northern Wings like you would on any PC.
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