How to play Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces on Mac

Game summary

After the Book of Darkness incident, Nanoha, Fate and Hayate postpone sending Reinforce away to ensure that the Book's regeneration program won't harm anyone again. However, this means that the remnant pages of the Book of Darkness soon regenerate and Nanoha and her friends are forced to fight them. These remnants take form of twisted, dark copies of the trio called the Dark Materials. All of the playable characters except the Materials have their own different story route in the game. Every route has the same basic structure: the player must first pass a training session, then defeat the dark clones of two of their best friends, defeat one Material boss, defeat the clones of two more friends, then lastly defeat a Material boss version of themselves.
First released: Feb 2010

Play Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces 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).

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces 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 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces like you would on any PC.
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