How to play Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai on Mac

Game summary

The wildly popular Dragon Ball Z series makes its first appearance on the PlayStation Portable with Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai. Play as the good guys or the bad guys in this high-energy fighting game. You can use flight and energy abilities, transformations, and counterattacks, as well as character-specific attacks featured in the Dragon Ball Z TV show. There are 18 playable characters and seven story modes to choose from. Challenge other gamers to multiplayer duels via the PSP Wi-Fi connection.
First released: Mar 2006

Play Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 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: Shin Budokai 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: Shin Budokai like you would on any PC.
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