Anyone here familiar with parrilels for mac? could i use it to play hentai games?

[wormtail39]

i recently got a macbook pro with 16 gb of ram, this obviously means no porn games will work lmao. is anyone here familiar with parralels i just found out about them with some googling? does parralels only work with steam games? or could i get hentai games to run aswell? and how hard is it to set up/do? im a bit worried that haveing to have your system language in japense might be an issue too is it? and how would i get arround this? any advice or help would be much apreciated and has anyone had any success trying this?

 

[Meaning Less]

With mac and linux you should be able to run most adult games through

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[wormtail39]

With mac and linux you should be able to run most adult games through

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i dont think i can use wine on an m1 chip

 

[MLocke]

Since Wine 6.1, you can run Win64 apps on an M1 chip. It's probably worth trying. A VM may not be the greatest experience. If Parallels is worth the price for playing games to you, I guess that's one way to go. You might want to experiment with something free first though. You could try UTM with Windows 11 ARM (without a purchased Microsoft license). I am not sure if this version is technically free for the time being or meant for evaluation. Windows 11 x64 would be slow in UTM. The (hentai) games in question will probably run OK in Windows 11 ARM even though there's another layer of emulation there. Generally, you only use Locale Emulator for Windows to configure only the games that need to be set Japanese language.

I haven't done any of this, so best of luck to you.

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[snookums.d.panda]

While I can't speak to how it'll work on an M1 chip, as a local Linux perv I can certainly share my tales of getting this sort of stuff to run via wine or virtual machines. And if we're talking genuine Japanese H-games here you'd be better off going the VM route, especially if you're looking at playing older titles.

Why? Wine is YMMV at the best of times, and there is quite the learning curve attached. Though I've certainly been able to get VNs running, it's not been without a share of font display issues, codecs running afoul during OP videos, and other odd behaviour that I just don't know where to start troubleshooting from (yes, appdb.winehq.org is a thing, but the perverts there aren't exactly sharing their knowledge with the rest of us). And it definitely gets worse the older the game is.

The WinXP VM I have running from time to time, this one causes me fewer headaches for the VNs I load through it. Just needs a bit of reading on how to set one up properly & maybe a bit of tuning to figure out the right amount of system resources to give it access to (processing speed/memory), and you should be good.

So my suggestion for your case? I'd second the above suggestion of looking into UTM, but I'd say going for Win7 rather than 11. UTM seems to support it (you have to supply your own install media), and it should be a lighter load on your system to use. Also, I do recall hearing that Win10 borked quite a bit with older games (and I doubt Win11 has fixed that), so unless you're looking at playing the latest and greatest in H, Win7 is probably the sweet spot (just make sure to not let it touch the internet, as it's no longer supported after all.)

Quick Reminder: I am not a Mac user, so take above with a grain of salt. And do the proper reading & research before you do anything on your system. I'm just saying that VMs give smoother experiences than Wine when it comes to H-games from my experience, or at least they do so on Linux.

Edity edit: Scratching above because A)I totally forgot about the whole ARM processor thing and B) I found that Windows 11 ARM seems okay to get VNs to run (on an M1 via Parallels no less), much to my amazement. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be actually useful and play in traffic now.

 

[wormtail39]

While I can't speak to how it'll work on an M1 chip, as a local Linux perv I can certainly share my tales of getting this sort of stuff to run via wine or virtual machines. And if we're talking genuine Japanese H-games here you'd be better off going the VM route, especially if you're looking at playing older titles.

Why? Wine is YMMV at the best of times, and there is quite the learning curve attached. Though I've certainly been able to get VNs running, it's not been without a share of font display issues, codecs running afoul during OP videos, and other odd behaviour that I just don't know where to start troubleshooting from (yes, appdb.winehq.org is a thing, but the perverts there aren't exactly sharing their knowledge with the rest of us). And it definitely gets worse the older the game is.

The WinXP VM I have running from time to time, this one causes me fewer headaches for the VNs I load through it. Just needs a bit of reading on how to set one up properly & maybe a bit of tuning to figure out the right amount of system resources to give it access to (processing speed/memory), and you should be good.

So my suggestion for your case? I'd second the above suggestion of looking into UTM, but I'd say going for Win7 rather than 11. UTM seems to support it (you have to supply your own install media), and it should be a lighter load on your system to use. Also, I do recall hearing that Win10 borked quite a bit with older games (and I doubt Win11 has fixed that), so unless you're looking at playing the latest and greatest in H, Win7 is probably the sweet spot (just make sure to not let it touch the internet, as it's no longer supported after all.)

Quick Reminder: I am not a Mac user, so take above with a grain of salt. And do the proper reading & research before you do anything on your system. I'm just saying that VMs give smoother experiences than Wine when it comes to H-games from my experience, or at least they do so on Linux.

Edity edit: Scratching above because A)I totally forgot about the whole ARM processor thing and B) I found that Windows 11 ARM seems okay to get VNs to run (on an M1 via Parallels no less), much to my amazement. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be actually useful and play in traffic now.

oooh this is interesting news thankyou! the game i want to run is insult order cocky catgirls i think its allot harder to run then a vn unfortunetly! and parralells looks really hard and confuseing and bad for the computer? i dunno im not verry tech savy! i wish things would just run on mac lmao its a curse!

 

[snookums.d.panda]

oooh this is interesting news thankyou! the game i want to run is insult order cocky catgirls i think its allot harder to run then a vn unfortunetly!

First of all, allow me to compliment you on your choice of game. While Miconisomi games deliver some quality goods in the anime titties department, it also (potentially) puts Wine back on the table as Unity & 3D graphics offer a lot less jank for Wine to deal with than your typical 2D VN engine from Japan. I also say 'potentially' as I'm quite unaware of how Wine acts on Apple hardware to begin with. Hell, I'm so out of the loop I'm not even 100% sure of what the general term for their computers is these days.

Second, I'd say to put the learning cap on and do some reading on the options that have been put forward so far (Wine & UTM first, then maybe Parallels if you find that UTM could stand to run a little faster). Taking the time to learn tech and getting this sort of thing to run is a pretty good exercise, and seeing naked anime girls is certainly a noble goal & good motivation to get yourself there.

 

[wormtail39]

First of all, allow me to compliment you on your choice of game. While Miconisomi games deliver some quality goods in the anime titties department, it also (potentially) puts Wine back on the table as Unity & 3D graphics offer a lot less jank for Wine to deal with than your typical 2D VN engine from Japan. I also say 'potentially' as I'm quite unaware of how Wine acts on Apple hardware to begin with. Hell, I'm so out of the loop I'm not even 100% sure of what the general term for their computers is these days.

Second, I'd say to put the learning cap on and do some reading on the options that have been put forward so far (Wine & UTM first, then maybe Parallels if you find that UTM could stand to run a little faster). Taking the time to learn tech and getting this sort of thing to run is a pretty good exercise, and seeing naked anime girls is certainly a noble goal & good motivation to get yourself there.

haha i gave it a go! cheers for the motivation! iv ran into a problem however! wine has installed itself as a 32 bit and i cant figure out how to install it as a 64 bit :/ so its not running. Loool nothing is simple with mac! which is ironic because everything about it, is designed to be simple. I just wana see some tiddies!!! il keep trying lol