How to play Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen on Mac
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Game summary
Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen is an Adventure game, developed by Pax Softonica and published by Nintendo, which was released in Japan in 1997.
It is a port of BS Shin Onigashima, a four-part broadcast game released for the Satellaview (a Super Famicom peripheral). This game (Zenpen) is composed of the first two episodes of BS Shin Oni Gashima.
Heisei Shin Onigashima was first released as a Nintendo Power downloadable game, then later released in two parts as cartridges (Zenpen, Kouhen), much like the original Famicom Disk System version was also divided in two parts.
The game was later released for the Wii Virtual Console, in two parts, and for the Wii U Virtual Console (a single release, Zengohen)
First released: Dec 1997
Play Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen 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).
Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen 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 Heisei Shin Onigashima: Zenpen like you would on any PC.
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