How to play Super Mario Bros. 3Mix on Mac
Game summary
Super Mario Bros. 3Mix is a large-scale hack that changes and adds lots of features to Super Mario Bros. 3, and pays homage to many past and (relative) FUTURE Mario titles, while attempting to remain faithful in spirit to the look and feel of Super Mario Bros. 3:
- All new levels (and a few “remixed” Mario 3 levels somewhere in there)
- Many new songs added from other Mario games (kept some SMB3 classics!)
- Play as Mario, Luigi, or Toad (cosmetic only) in any configuration
- New power-ups (Penguin replaces Frog, Carrot replaces Tanooki)
- Star Coins (which are used to unlock portions of the game)
- Ability to re-enter past worlds (with level completion intact)
- Ability to re-enter past levels (to get all of your Star Coins)
- Alternate exits in some levels
- Ability to save progress
- Many new enemies, typically some special ones for the world theme
- All new bosses (many are “remixes” of bosses from other Mario games)
- All kinds of gameplay changes to meet the theme of a level/world
First released: May 2014
Play Super Mario Bros. 3Mix on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Super Mario Bros. 3Mix 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).
Super Mario Bros. 3Mix 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 Super Mario Bros. 3Mix like you would on any PC.
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