How to play Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden on Mac

Game summary

Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden (ドラゴンボールZ 超究極武闘伝, Doragon Bōru Z Chō Kyūkyoku Butōden, lit. "Dragon Ball Z Super Ultimate Fighter") is an fighting game released on the Nintendo 3DS. The game was first announced on the April issue of Shueisha's magazine on Saturday that the 2D fighting game will arrive on the 3DS this summer. The game features over 100 fighters in both one-on-one and team battles. It will have a story mode where you go through sagas as either the heros or villains. A demo has been released for Japanese 3DS's with the help of a code. In the demo you can play as Goku, Vegeta, Teen Gohan, and Buu. You can play on 5 stages. It was released on June 11, 2015 in Japan. On June 9, 2015, two days before the Japanese release, there were reports that the game was classified on June 4th, on the Australian ratings board, which hinted the localization of the game. It was confirmed by Bandai Namco on June 23 that the game will be released in the West in mid to late October.
First released: Jun 2015

Play Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden 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).

Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden 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 Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden like you would on any PC.
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