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One of the funniest coincidences I've ever had happen to me since making rips for SiIvaGunner is having one of my rips go up at the perfect time, completely unintentionally. June 18th, 2017 was the day I got invited to the team with only a few rips under my belt, but I had an additional few in the email which were either rejected or being reworked to match channel quality standards.

One of these rips was Pursuit ~ Lying Coldly - Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, a remake of the 2016 rip intended to fix the off-key melody and incorporate other sources like Snow Halation and Haltmann's Theme. However, my remake had issues of its own like other off-key sections (ironic), awkward timing, and weird choices with how I chose to incorporate the jokes (it would switch between the joke and the original in a way that wasn't satisfying or even made sense for the rip). Soon after, the rip was quickly forgotten about, and I got word from a ripper friend that it had been rejected anyway.

Some years pass and I go through a large period of inactivity (from late 2018 to early 2023), eventually coming back and tackling ideas I had years before, but lacked the drive or technical knowledge to do. It wasn't until last year when looking through my old emails that I realized I could redo my Lying Coldly rip from 2017, and I went straight for it, paired with a request that it be uploaded June 18th, my 7-year team anniversary, for sentimental reasons.

June 18th also happened to be the date of the upcoming Nintendo direct, and by complete coincidence, unbeknownst to me, the rip gets uploaded right as the Ace Attorney Investigations collection is announced.

Sidenote: the collection coming out was itself pretty huge as it had an officially localized version of Ace Attorney Investigations 2, considered one of the best in the overall series, and kept exclusive to Japan for 13 years. Basically, the Ace Attorney community's Mother 3 (we can pray that gets its turn next).

The comments on the rip are fun to read; many of them point out the coincidence with the rip having been scheduled way before the direct.

Two comments, one on YouTube and another on the rip's wikia page, correctly inferred that the rip was held off for years before it got to see the light of day.

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Rips of the week: 09/09/2024

Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) and Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement)

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips Volume A

Ripped by alan

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More) Aqua Star (Unused) - Kirby Super Star

Ripped by alan

Requested by Fezaki! (Request Form)

There are few things I love more on the SiIvaGunner channel than the phenomena I like to call "call & response" rips. These are, put simply, rips connected to one another through a sort of dialogue - an obvious example of this is with He4rt4che and 4SGOR3, two intertwined projects by the same ripper released right alongside one another. Yet these projects have also be used to, in effect, pay tribute to the works of other rippers on the channel: Shiny Smily TALE, for instance, saw Ellie53 pay respects to a rip made four whole years prior by Sarvéproductions. There's also one of my all-time personal favorites for silly sentimental reasons, Violet Snow Memories, which remakes and expands upon a relatively obscure rip made *SEVEN* years prior by a ripper who's no longer actively part of the team. Without having any knowledge of the behind-the-scenes behind their production, these rips end up feeling like true expressions of love between rippers, being creatively fulfilling projects in their own right whilst directing attention toward rips and rippers that they cherish.

Yet with the two rips featured today, Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) and Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement), we run into a somewhat unique scenario, that I haven't personally seen all too often on the channel: a sort of combination of two of the example scenarios described. These two rips were both made by the same ripper, Alan, who's both a friend of the blog and has been contributing on and off for the channel since late into Season 1, still being active today eight years later in Season 8. And therein is what makes this pair of rips so interesting: Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) released all the way back in Season 3, while Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement) came out just shy of three months ago back in June of Season 8 - yet are both playing off of the same core idea. Even six years after its release, the core idea of Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) seems to have stuck with the guy, and all this time later he finally decided to expand on the concept further, out of no other reason than his own personal investment in the concept. Six years of waiting, six years of experience gained - let's see where this all takes us.

The soundscape of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is one I've made no secret of my affection for, most notably with Aquadial just outright being an all-time favorite rip of mine, but even with more out-there bizarre projects like Kirby Joins the Circus!, they all manage to have an indescribable appeal that comes just from how beautiful Kirby 64 as a whole sounds. The channel and internet as a whole is filled with tributes paid to the game's soundtrack, yet Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) takes a direction similar to the previously covered Mt. Dedede (extended) - choosing to inject Kirby music, into other Kirby music. The Kirby franchise is itself already filled with homages paid to its legacy music, endlessly rearranging its past work, and so Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) fits in with the rest of the series' soundtracks like a glove. Float Islands in particular is a pretty crucial piece of music for the franchise, originating from the very first game in the series, being remixed in countless games, and most notably laying the groundwork for the franchise's beloved Rest Area theme, later arranged and reused for the Super Smash Bros. series and itself featured in beloved rips like Me and the rest area of the melee here, singing, "Where'd you go​?​". It's Jun Ishikawa's knack for catchy, soothing and high-tempo composition distilled into just one track - the kind of song that just SOUNDS like Kirby ought to sound, no matter what form it takes.

It should come as no surprise that Alan knocks the arrangement out of the park with Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) - Aqua Star, the track being used as the basis, already takes cues from Float Islands in certain snippets of its arrangement, and Alan is able to leverage that connection into a sound experience that sounds damn near effortlessly like an authentic Ishikawa arrangement. The lead instruments chosen follow along with Aqua Star very nicely, the brass sounds as authentically "Kirby 64" as always, the percussion is as lovely as Float Islands' arrangements always are - it's an incredibly solid rip, that even back in 2018 turned some heads with commenters denoting how surprising it was to see just outright wholesale remixes put onto SiIvaGunner. Of course, this was not something new - we've had rips like Turn On Your SEGA Genesis and Just Enjoy Yourself as far back as Season 1 - yet to see a ripper like Alan play along with Kirby series' tradition of celebrating past music so authentically was no doubt part of what made this rip stick out so much - many didn't even recognize that Float Islands wasn't originally in Kirby 64 and just thought the rip was an unedited reupload of music from the game!

Of course, this was nevertheless a rip from Season 3, six years ago - the channel was still somewhat undergoing growing pains, shedding the anything-goes wild west of Season 1 and gradually turning into something with a higher bar of quality. Despite my love for it, there are still some slight oddities present in Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement), indications of its status as, ultimately, a hobby project for a shitpost channel. And that's why I find Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement) to be such a cool release - it saw Alan return to this old rip idea, now within the context of SiIvaGunner in 2024, part of this team that's learned so much about ripping for so many different games, that continues to find new ways to impress with every passing month with everything from Last Freight-train Night to Thwâmpröck Desert. In my eyes, Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement) is right at home here - instead of rearranging one of Kirby's oldest legacy songs into the soundscape almost impossible to make sound bad, the rip feels like a far more daunting task in doing the opposite, taking a song built upon that distinct soundscape and attempting to recreate it within the confines of a far older game, in Kirby Super Star for the Super Nintendo.

Yet Alan pulls this endeavor off with flying colors! The thing I immediately noticed, compared to Kirby Super Star's take on Float Islands, is the percussion: in Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement), it sounds ever so slightly...dreamier, less heavy - perhaps that's my ears playing tricks on me, but I get the sense whilst listening that Alan put in a hell of a lot of effort to recapture the magically sparkly feel that Kirby 64's music so often holds. You hear this in the lead melody instruments used as well - the primary lead is the same beautiful one used as the lead in Super Star's Float Islands, yet it's occasionally swapped out for a less-used instrument from that same track, there only used for accenting the end of certain segments, but is used here for a wonderful back-and-fourth sound throughout the rip's runtime. On the whole, it's just a wonderfully tasteful, well-rounded arrangement without twists or surprises - a perfect response to the call placed back in 2018.

As I led this post off with, it's that back-and-fourth dynamic between rips that I found so utterly endearing about rips like these two. Yet the additional wrinkle that both works here were made by the SAME ripper gives it a distinctly different flavor, it goes from viewing two rippers pay each other loving respect to seeing one ripper grow in proficiency and ability over many years of honing their craft. As a result, while I find Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement) to be an absolutely wonderful piece in its own right, it was Alan's work on Aqua Star (Kirby Super Star Arrangement) that enamored me - to see that progression of a ripper in such a direct, yet at once indirect, way, was an incredibly fascinating listening experience. Alan shows no sign in slowing down in his contributions to the channel, and with rips of this caliber, I can't wait to see what the future holds for the guy.

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hey #WaitATick that guy looks familiar...? #WhatsGoingOn #Help #FortniteLeaks2024

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Cloud (looking at the siivagunner queen for a day roster): uhm aerith why does your sourcelist say songs about dying

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I'm happy to announce my involvement in the latest SiIvagunner Fusion Record's Album: RIP²! I got work on one of the five thumbnails based off beloved kirbtunes thumbnails (This one based off of Kairi Sato's We Bros eXtend cover)

Please check out the full album and other thumbnails if you can! Everyone did such an awesome job!!

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firefighter!

i don't rlly have anyone to ping lol

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter

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what kind of ripper, are you?

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Todays Rip [First 30 Archive] - 26/05/2023

One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop

Season 4 Episode 2

Featured on: Bloodstained Bounties ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection [Event Side]

Ripped by R.L.99

One of the bigest reasons I wanted to do this project of regular shoutouts was to bring more attention to the genius creatives behind the helm at SiIvaGunner. As is to be expected, some of these creatives are no longer with the channel, be that through finding new ventures in life, breaking ties, leaving on bad terms, or most tragically, being taken from us. I never got to talk to R.L.99 when he was with us, and that still does really sadden me. Because as a creative on SiIvaGunner during Season 5, he was consistently on top of the food chain.

When you get as late into the channel as Season 5, a lot of the content produced doesn’t just aim to impress through a funny concept, mainly due to how many of those concepts have already been done in earlier Seasons. Todays rip also premiered during the 6th annual PSY Day, meaning it was already filled with rippers trying to raise the bar for all kinds of Gangnam Style, Gentlemen, and otherwise PSYtastic edits and mashups. On a day of fierce competition during a time where every ripper was already trying to raise the bar higher than everyone else…yet when the dust settled there was no doubt in my mind that One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop was that day’s champion.

Like a lot of the best rips, the key lies in escalation - During its seven minute runtime, the theme keeps building on itself, surprising you at every turn. Starting out as a simple mash-up of instrumentals with PSY’s vocals and iconic “Ayys” and “ops” used for the choir, it later adds incorporation of full-on lyrics from Gangnam Style and Gentlemen into the track, only to then pull the biggest flex of all - Sentence mixing PSY’s vocals to sing the latin lyrics of the original One Winged Angel. Then just for good measure they insert the phrase “Eyy, Sexy Sephiroth” into the song by the middle, just to keep you on your toes.

Its just one of those rips that never lets up, yet magically is only scratching the surface of R.L.99s output on the channel during his limited time on it. Rest well, legend.

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hi. a really long time ago you tweeted this

unfortunately god is dead (rip SOPHIE) and the lost media wiki has expanded to offer new and exciting questions about the meaning of life by which i mean more reasons to torture you and your tumblr ask box

pretty much everyone knows what o and p were at this point but what about the other stuff? when the siivagunner wiki doesn't know what the jokes even were that's when we have a real issue on our hands. and by real issue i mean the most esoteric nerd shit ever. :3

Final Level - Mighty Switch Force Back in 2018 Chaze made an effort to find this rip after being asked about it. It was uploaded long before we had any kind of concise logging on who made what, so he went around and messaged everyone who was in Backroom at the time to see if they happened to still have the file. Nobody had it, and the person actually most likely to have uploaded it had lost the contents of the hard drive they had at the time. Any further attempts throughout the year have proven similarly unfruitful. Status: Lost

o & p The wiki has pretty detailed explanations of these, so there's not much to add there. Both videos were part of the Reboot ARG and were always unlisted, but when p got a community strike for nudity we decided to private o just in case it was also getting flagged. (I assume, because that makes the most sense.) The videos are still on the channel so they are not lost! I have reuploaded them here for your viewing pleasure, though please do mind that even though there isn't really anything explicit visible, they are based on directly on pornographic footage. Status: Archived Links: o (direct mp4) - p (direct mp4)

Because I Love You (Alpha Mix) - Earthbound Roughly half an hour after this was uploaded, the creator of this rip sent a DM to a backroom member saying "I think you should delete my rip because I noticed off key sections and clipping," adding that "even people in the comment section noticed it," and that they "disown that rip". In response to this, some team members said that while the execution of the rip was indeed lacking, it did have potential, but it never ended up being fixed and resubmitted. 28 hours after the initial upload, the rip was deleted while another backroom member was cleaning out some of the private videos (most of which were test uploads or otherwise stuff not meant to go public to begin with). They also noted that the rip in question was "garbo". The original ripper may still have this, but they are no longer affiliated with the SiIvaGunner team so I will not be reaching out. Status: Undetermined

Main Theme (Summer) - Wii Shop Channel This rip was removed due to its awkward execution, and was planned to be revised by someone else shortly after its removal. This never ended up happening, but the original file remains archived. Status: Privately archived

Lost in Thoughts All Alone - Fire Emblem Fates This rip got muted for copyright reasons shortly after being uploaded, and was probably deleted not too long after. I sadly have no idea who made it or what it contained. Status: Lost in Thoughts All Alone

Central Highway - Mega Man X Accidental duplicate upload. Contents are identical. Status: Not lost

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Hey. Don't cry. Air Canada's first A320 delivered wearing scarf and ear warmers ok?

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rip-making is such a fun time. it’s like, “wow, i have this idea for how to remix this game music, i can’t wait to see how it sounds”, and then you get to have so much fun actually making it and the result is you get to have your idea realized and made into a real thing -- then it gets posted and you see everyone’s reaction in the comments, it’s so indescribably beautiful

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the wait inbetween submitting a rip to siivagunner and having it up on the channel is indescribable to me. by the time a rip i made finally goes up i will have listened to it about 50 times

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comic

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about time 

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“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket

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When I say editing software is getting dumber, this is what I mean.

In what world is "What dinnered?" more legible than "What happened to dinner?" I just... what?!