How to play The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker on Mac

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Game summary

Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker is an unofficial Banjo-Kazooie (Nintendo 64) ROM hack/mod. The game features Outset Island, from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Banjo and Kazooie need to explore the area and find collectibles while looking for Link, because he is missing and the King of Red Lions is waiting for him.
First released: Jul 2019

Play The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker 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).

The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker 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 The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Bear Waker like you would on any PC.
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