How to play beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- on Mac

Game summary

beatmania 5thMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fifth numbered game in the beatmania series (but 6th beatmania arcade game) and is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table and 5 keys, three white and two black. On the screen you will see bars moving from the top to bottom in columns representing each of the keys and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. beatmania 5thMIX removed the combo count added in 3rdMIX, and restricted the flashing great judgement to EXPERT mode, both of these changes are reverted in the next entry in the series. Song selection has been reworked and are now shown in a list with difficulty levels shown to the left of the song name. For the first time in the series a harder version of a chart is added. Only 4 songs feature them and the can only be played on stage 2 in Hard mode. The Modifiers SUDDEN and HI-SPEED were added. The song list has 19 songs returning from 4thMIX, 7 Dancemania licenses and 18 new songs. The total track list contains 34 songs.
First released: Sep 1999

Play beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- 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).

beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- 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 beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down- like you would on any PC.
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