How to play Streets of Rage Remake on Mac

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Game summary

Streets of Rage Remake is a fangame reboot on the trilogy Streets of Rage. Some of its functions: * Animation timing, animation positioning, control response, X/Y/Z positions and physical movement for all characters are accurate to the original games. * 64 modules of AI per enemy to represent walking and reactions. * Collisions and damages based on the original games. * The same score system algorythm that is used in SOR2. * Grabs and vaults as in the original games. * Autosave savestates that allow you to continue the game from the same point, exit windows, alt+x, etc. * Prediction of resources, to speed loading times. * All functions of all the original games in the series are emulated: - Over 30 configurable options in the menu - Star and Special Meter sytems - 6-button controller actions - Different types of weapons, and Special Weapon attacks - Police specials - And much more GAMEPLAY Tests have been conducted for months to ensure that the game plays well, plays accurately, has the smallest possible number of bugs and an appropriate difficulty level. MATERIAL The following material has been created exclusively for Street of Rage Remake V5, and V4 (with all that implies). CUTSCENES The game includes original cutscenes between stages, totalling over 40 cutscenes and 8 endings. STAGES There are stages in the game that are either completely new or remastered, adding more colors, more scrolling layers, interactive details not present in the original games and much more. THE SPRITES Over 10 designers have been working for years to create new sprites, creating 19 playable characters all with a complete set of moves, new enemies, new details on the stages and much more. MUSIC The music has been remixed by 5 different musicians, they are in OGG format (44khz, 128kbps) and contain practically all the songs in the original series, including Game Gear versions and some new tracks, a total of 76 songs. * All songs have been volume controlled and EQ. SOUND FX The gam
First released: Apr 2011

Play Streets of Rage Remake on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Streets of Rage Remake 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).

Streets of Rage Remake 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 Streets of Rage Remake like you would on any PC.
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