How to play beatmania III -The latest evolution machine- on Mac

Game summary

beatmania III is a rhythm game developed by Konami. It is the first 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. This game starts the beatmania III spinoff series, which introduces the foot pedal into the game, which has separate notes tied to it. The foot pedal can also be configured to act as one of the 5 regular keys as well. Since the series features upgraded hardware in comparison to the main series, the game has more fluid movies and animation and the interface is generally more colorful. The effector table is also expanded. The cabinet has a floppy disk slot on which you can save scores, unlocked songs and game modes. A headphone jack is also included. This is the only game in the series with brand new songs, the rest of the games were released as "APPEND" games, pulling in songs from their beatmania counterpart. The game has 87 songs pulled from beatmania - beatmania 5thMIX and 23 brand new songs, for a total of 110 songs.
First released: Mar 2000

Play beatmania III -The latest evolution machine- on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play beatmania III -The latest evolution machine- 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 latest evolution machine- 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 latest evolution machine- like you would on any PC.
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