How to play Sound Voltex: Booth on Mac

Game summary

SOUND VOLTEX is one of the most recent series of BEMANI music games, and the first one to utilize the eAMUSEMENT Participation system. Sound directors of the SOUND VOLTEX series are DJ YOSHITAKA, Cody and dj TAKA. DJ YOSHITAKA serves as the head producer. Sota Fujimori provides all of the games' background musics (in SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS, under his Expander alias). What makes SOUND VOLTEX different from the other game series is that regular BEMANI artists (either KONAMI in-house or commissioned ones) aren't involved in the song list, with a few exceptions. It, instead, involves artists renowned in the doujin and beatmania simulation scene, plus licensed EXIT TUNES songs and Touhou Project arrangements. There are also remixes of original KONAMI songs. While at first the song list mostly consisted of original songs or licenses involving VOCALOID, later in the life-cycle of the first game the artist selection greatly expanded thanks to what it is supposed to be the most important part of the series - the FLOOR section.
First released: Feb 2013

Play Sound Voltex: Booth on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Sound Voltex: Booth 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).

Sound Voltex: Booth 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 Sound Voltex: Booth like you would on any PC.
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