How to play beatmania 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- on Mac

Game summary

beatmania 6thMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the eleventh game in the beatmania series 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. The ANOTHER difficulty has been renamed to MANIAC. HARD mode is no longer a separate mode, but a selection on the song selection screen.Song titles in the selection screen is now colored due to diffuculty, NORMAL is yellow, HARD is red, MANIAC is green. EXPERT+ mode is introduced, featuring extra hard courses. FREE mode introduced, allowing players a free selection of the music regardless of difficulty. A session is limit to 3 stages instead of NORMAL mode's 4 stages. The modifiers selection is now also available in NORMAL and FREE mode, not only in EVENT mode as in CORE REMIX. As with other trilogy starters, all older songs have been removed. 27 brand new songs are introduced with a focus on the UK music scene.
First released: Jul 2001

Play beatmania 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- 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 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- 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 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC- like you would on any PC.
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