How to play pop'n music: Tune Street on Mac

Game summary

pop'n music Tune Street is a rhythm game. It is the 19th game in the Pop'n Music series and a part of Konami's BEMANI Franchise. The game is played on a controller with 9 large coloured buttons, each button has a lane representation on the screen, along each lane similarly coloured icons (called pop-kun) move down the screen, when they reach the judgement line the player must press the corresponding button with correct timing. pop'n music Tune Street was the first game in the series available in HD in the new optional wide screen cabinet. The HD version allows for additional information about your play to be displayed on the side of the play field. It is also the first game to offer pop'n music cards, collectable trading cards featuring the pop'n music characters. pop'n music Tune Street features a massive song list, with 595 songs returning from previous entries, 53 license songs from TV and Anime, 108 songs from home versions of the series, 75 downloadable songs from the ee'MALL system as well as 72 brand new songs totalling a song list of 903 songs.
First released: Dec 2010

Play pop'n music: Tune Street on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play pop'n music: Tune Street 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).

pop'n music: Tune Street 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 pop'n music: Tune Street like you would on any PC.
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