How to play Ys 2 Special on Mac

Game summary

Ys 2 was the second game Mantra brought to Korea after Princess Maker. But instead of just porting one of the many available home computer or console versions, Mantra assembled a whole development team — at least partly recruited from the stores' customers — to recreate the entire game. Other than completely redrawn graphics and a remixed soundtrack (with even one entirely new tune) by the then relatively new team TeMP, who delivered their first published work with this game, Mantra also expanded many of the field maps and added some new events, including a new dungeon called Dan'gun's Tower. They also left in a lot of bugs. According to the former sprite artist of the game, the team hastily finished the game after several delays for fear of the company boss' wrath (who also happened to be the father of the development team lead). Advertisements for the game announced also a music pack, a speech pack and a CD-ROM version, none of which was ever released. The same goes for the promised remake of Ys 4

Play Ys 2 Special on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Ys 2 Special 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).

Ys 2 Special 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 Ys 2 Special like you would on any PC.
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