Professional Music Driver PMD

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File Format
Name Professional Music Driver PMD
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Extension(s) .m, .m2

Professional Music Driver (PMD) is a music macro language format by Masahiro Kajihara. PMD was popular on Japanese PC-98 games, targeting Yamaha FM sound chips, and also supported Adlib/Soundblaster FM, as used by a few games localised for the western market. The format has a human-readable macro language for writing music, which compiles into .m and .m2 binary files.

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Files don't have clear identification, but usually begin with a mode byte (0, 1, or 2) followed by 12 or 13 sequential word offsets into the file.

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  • Hoot Archive The PC-98 game music list includes many PMD soundtracks, eg. diesirae_98, eve_98, and inma_sei_98
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