How to play Club Nintendo Picross on Mac
Game summary
Club Nintendo Picross is a game in Nintendo's Picross series that was only available to Japanese members of Club Nintendo. It was downloadable for 80 points. Like all Picross games, the player must solve nonograms, where a picture is made by filling in squares on a grid within a time limit. Which squares are filled is determined by numbers on each row and column. The numbers indicate how many squares are filled in within that row or column. A wrong guess penalizes time. Too many wrong guesses, and the game is over.
First released: Sep 2012
Play Club Nintendo Picross on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Club Nintendo Picross 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).
Club Nintendo Picross 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 Club Nintendo Picross like you would on any PC.
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