How to play Mega Man Battle Network 5 on Mac
Game summary
Mega Man Battle Network 5 is a game from the Mega Man Battle Network series released for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance in two versions: Team ProtoMan, known in Japan as Team of Blues and Team Colonel, known in Japan as Team of Colonel. Like Mega Man Battle Network 3, in Japan, ProtoMan was released by itself first with Colonel coming out months later. Despite that, Colonel contains the same bugs ProtoMan had.
A few months later, Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS was released for the Nintendo DS which included content from both GBA versions together with extras and bugfixes. A sequel and the finale game in the Mega Man Battle Network series, Mega Man Battle Network 6, was released the following year.
First released: Dec 2014
Play Mega Man Battle Network 5 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Mega Man Battle Network 5 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).
Mega Man Battle Network 5 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 Mega Man Battle Network 5 like you would on any PC.
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