How to play Soldier Blade Special: Caravan Stage on Mac
Game summary
Soldier Blade was part of the 8th Caravan Competition organized by Hudson Soft in 1992. A non-commercial and very limited edition of Soldier Blade exists - Soldier Blade Special Version comes as a single HuCard, and offers a 2 and 5 minutes Time Attack modes. Other Special Versions exist (Gunhed and Final Soldier) but Soldier Blade Special Version is probably the most "common" one, although extremely rare. It was also the end of an era - Soldier Blade was technically the last Star Soldier game to be featured in the Hudson Soft Caravan Festival.
Play Soldier Blade Special: Caravan Stage on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Soldier Blade Special: Caravan Stage 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).
Soldier Blade Special: Caravan Stage 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 Soldier Blade Special: Caravan Stage like you would on any PC.
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