How to play Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition on Mac

Game summary

A new warrior has entered the ring! Take control of 25 world warriors and test your mettle against players from around the world. Street Fighter 4: Champion Edition perfects the winning gameplay formula by offering higher resolution graphics, three new characters (Poison, Ibuki and Dudley) wide screen support for newer iOS devices and a host of updates and refinements. Long time Street Fighter fans can jump into the action and have an instant familiarity with the controls. For more casual players Street Fighter 4 features numerous settings and tutorials that put you on the path to victory. Fight as 25 Street Fighter characters (three new characters and six more coming as free updates) Higher resolution graphics and wide screen support Intuitive virtual pad controls allow players to execute full move sets including Unique Attacks, Special Moves, Focus Attacks, Super Combos and Ultra Combos Take your game to the next level with a MFi controller like the Gamevice Battle head-to-head against players from around the world via Wifi Single player “arcade” and multiplayer modes. Unleash super moves with a tap of the “SP” button. Four levels of difficulty. Initial launch included new characters: - Poison - Dudley - Ibuki Later, additional characters were added in free updates: - Guy - Gouken - Evil Ryu - Elena - Juri - Rose - Dan (Android Only)
First released: Jul 2017

Play Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition 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).

Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition 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 Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition like you would on any PC.
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