How to play beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER on Mac
Game summary
BISTROVER is the 28th iteration of the beatmania IIDX series, a spinoff series of the beatmania series and part of the BEMANI franchise.
The game is played on a special controller consisting of 7 pianolike buttons and a turn table. Notes fall down across the screen and when they hit the judgement line it is time to press the button, or turn the turntable.
The Theme of BISTROVER is food and travel, the name itself is a combination of the words Bistro and Rover.
Some new features added to BISTROVER is more statistics and analysis on your results after a song, so you can better get an understanding of how you did. The Pacemaker (which keeps a track of how you are doing during a song) can now tell you how how far you are from a next grade, and updates to a new target during the song.
First released: Oct 2020
Play beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER 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 IIDX 28 BISTROVER 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 IIDX 28 BISTROVER like you would on any PC.
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