How to play beatmania CORE REMIX on Mac

Game summary

beatmania CORE REMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the ninth 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 game focuses on remixing the songs from the first two game, where every song features a normal and remixed version. it is the first game that lets you change the modifiers from the music select screen, which becomes standard later in the series, but only only when the game is in event mode. Since the game focuses on remixes no songs from clubMIX was brought over. Instead 17 songs from beatmania and beatmania 2ndMIX was included and remixed. An additional 7 brand new songs was also included for a total of 41 songs.
First released: Nov 2000

Play beatmania CORE REMIX on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania CORE REMIX 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 CORE REMIX 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 CORE REMIX like you would on any PC.
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