How to play beatmania III: APPEND 6thMIX on Mac

Game summary

beatmania III: APPEND 6thMIX is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the third game in the beatmania III series, a spin-off of the beatmania series. It is part of the BEMANI franchise. The game is played with a controller with one turn table, one foot pedal 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, foot pedal and the turntable. When the bars reach the judgement line it is time to scratch. First beatmania III game to include LONG version of songs. It is the final beatmania III version with INTERNET RANKING. As with its beatmania conterpart, the SEPARATE playframe was added, giving black keys their own lane. Game modifiers can be accessed from the song selection screen. As the name entails, the game focuses on bringing over the songs from beatmania 6thMIX, all 27 new songs from that version were added. Additionally 3 LONG versions of songs was added. 159 old songs return from the previous entry. The total number of songs is 189.
First released: Jul 2001

Play beatmania III: APPEND 6thMIX on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania III: APPEND 6thMIX 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 III: APPEND 6thMIX 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 III: APPEND 6thMIX like you would on any PC.
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