How to play NCAA March Madness 06 on Mac

Game summary

Electronic Art's NCAA Basketball franchise returns with new and improved features for the 2005 season. The new lockdown stick allows you to force opponent's to make easier turnovers and make smoother passes to teammates. You can have your senior captain get your team into the game and get your crowd fired up to rattle your rivals into mistakes. With an much more updated dynasty mode you can now recruit Junior College players with updated stats to keep you ahead of your rivals and relive some of the greatest moments with College Classics and play up to 20 great games, repeating history or completely changing it.
First released: Oct 2005

Play NCAA March Madness 06 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play NCAA March Madness 06 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).

NCAA March Madness 06 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 NCAA March Madness 06 like you would on any PC.
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