How to play beatmania III THE FINAL on Mac

Game summary

beatmania III THE FINAL is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the fifth and final 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 hit the key or scratch. Every missing completeMIX 2 Double ANOTHER chart has been added. HISPEED has got more settings spanning from x1 - x16. All 46 new songs from beatmania THE FINAL have been added. Additionally 222 songs from previous entries have returned. The final song list has 268 songs in total.
First released: Aug 2002

Play beatmania III THE FINAL on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania III THE FINAL 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 THE FINAL 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 THE FINAL like you would on any PC.
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