- This page is about the content format. For the lore explanation of albums, see Albums [FILE-12] - Haltmann's Archives. For the playlist that contains the albums' announcements, see Category:Announcements.
SiIvaGunner periodically releases their rips in albums, typically on the website Bandcamp. The albums are rare instances of the SiIvaGunner kayfabe being broken, since they show the actual rippers of the channel and the "true" track names.
History
The main Bandcamp account for the GiIvaSunner channel, gilvasunner.bandcamp.com, was created on February 24, 2016. The draft for the album GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 1 was also created that day, and the album was released on March 30, 2016. Until February 2024, almost all albums were released through this Bandcamp account. The "Slamcamp", giivasunner.bandcamp.com, was created on May 7, 2016, and KORIBALL was published there on the same day. It was later used to publish the Space Jam Charity SLAM!'s albums.
Mirrors on file sharing sites have also been released for almost every album, primarily so that Bandcamp's download limit (200 free downloads per artist per month[1]) can be avoided. From March 2016 to January 2021, mirrors (usually in the form of ZIP files) were typically uploaded on both Google Drive and Mega, but in March 2021, most albums received newly created mirrors, uploaded as Google Drive folders instead of ZIP files. Since then, Mega has not been used for album mirrors.
The video descriptions of album announcements have typically been used to advertise albums and their mirrors, beginning with "Ａ Ｎ Ｎ Ｏ Ｕ Ｎ Ｃ Ｅ Ｍ Ｅ Ｎ Ｔ" in March 2016. Although neither album announcements nor albums are based on GilvaSunner, almost every album has consistently had an accompanying announcement video, typically following the title format of "A(n) [adjective] Announcement". In January 2018, "...of 2017" became the first video to be used to announce more than one album.
Initially, both Bandcamp accounts were called "GilvaSunner", and all Bandcamp albums were credited to GilvaSunner. Following the deletion of the original GilvaSunner's YouTube channel, the name of the Bandcamp account (and the credit on most albums) was finally changed to "SiIvaGunner" on February 12–13, 2022.[2][3] However, the "Slamcamp" was never renamed.[4]
On April 15, 2024, both Bandcamp accounts were unexpectedly disabled by Bandcamp.[n 1] In response, new accounts with no content were created with the same URLs to prevent them from being taken by third parties, and the SiIvaGunner emergency album index was published on highquality.rip. The incident was addressed in a YouTube community post and on Twitter.[5][6]
On May 13, 2024, the album garten of bamm-bamm (reference to the child of barney rubble flinstones) was released exclusively on Google Drive. Links to the album were provided through its announcement video and the emergency album index.
On July 9, 2024, the SGFR website was overhauled with the release of the album SGFR Presents: B💣MBERTRACKS, to compensate for the removal of the Bandcamp. The team plans to create a similar host for the main SiIvaGunner albums.[7]
On November 18, 2024, the Bandcamp account J.E.'s Archive, located at jearchive.bandcamp.com, was launched. This Bandcamp account, explained in "An Album Announcement" as a temporary solution until a dedicated album platform could be built, features every album released after the previous Bandcamp accounts were disabled. At launch, it was used to release two new albums: The Joke-Explainer™ 7000's Highest Quality Rips: Sunrise and Sunset.
Format
Albums are released online as digital downloads, and all albums except for KORIBALL and "Bigai Circulation" are usually available for free. Typically, a canonical copy of each album is published on Bandcamp and can be downloaded for free, although fans can pay if they wish, and mirrors on file sharing sites like Google Drive are provided as alternatives.[n 2]
Albums usually comprise SiIvaGunner rips that have been previously released on YouTube, although occasionally tracks are first released or only released on albums. Most are much longer than typical studio albums, with track counts in the hundreds. Some albums, such as Inspector Gunner, are dedicated to recent channel events, whereas most others, such as SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI, are compilations of recent rips. A few albums, such as KORIBALL, were released for comedic purposes.
Thousands of rips have never been released in albums; tracks are manually submitted for inclusion in albums, and the amount of tracks contributors can have on a single album is limited by the backroom (unless the album is themed).[8] Thus, the albums only a contain a selection of rippers' favorite rips.
Technical issues
Due to the length of some album and track titles, attempting to open the .zip files of albums on Windows may cause problems such as "path too long" error messages or files not being extracted correctly. To avoid this, rename the .zip file and the resulting folder to have shorter names. Another way to avoid this is to extract the .zip folder using 7-Zip or WinRar.
List
- See also: Category:Albums
There are currently 140 albums, of which 120 were available on the main Bandcamp.
Notes
- ↑ The content of the disabled accounts were moved to the subdomains gilvasunner-disabled-1111875320.bandcamp.com and giivasunner-disabled-2572225559.bandcamp.com; pages for albums and tracks were once accessible through the Bandcamp mobile site for some time before they stopped working.
- ↑ The tracks "THE Paper Jam (BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE)", "THE Paper Jam Part 2 (BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE)" and "The Final Paper JAM (BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE)" were intentionally excluded from official Google Drive mirrors. All of them have been preserved by third parties on the Internet Archive.
- ↑ If an album has hidden tracks, the number of non-hidden tracks is shown first, followed by the number of hidden tracks in parentheses. Removed tracks are not considered.
- ↑ The publication time (
publish_date) shown in the HTML source code of each album's Bandcamp page is used as the source for its release date, unless there is no Bandcamp page or the album was initially given a limited release, in which case the upload time (publishedAt) of the album announcement video according to the YouTube API is used instead. Both Bandcamp and the YouTube API use the GMT time zone, but this page uses Pacific Time, so the dates shown on this page may differ from those shown on the Bandcamp website. - ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 For albums that were never released on Bandcamp, the release date of the respective album announcement video is shown instead.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 KORIBALL, The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: First Quarter and The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: B-Ball Side were released on the "Slamcamp" and are not shown on the main Bandcamp subdomain.
- ↑ Although it was the ninth album relased, it has always been listed behind the first album on both the Bandcamp and the emergency album index.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 On September 25, 2016, Gurando no Mori was released at 11:03:44 PDT, and beatmania IIDX 7 GRAND was released at 16:59:57 PDT.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 On September 27, 2016, JOEJOE'S BIZZAERE JOJOKE was released at 14:59:42 PDT, and Quality Sampler was released at 23:05:05 PDT.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 On September 29, 2016, Stagg Street Arrangements was released at 01:25:12 PDT, and CD Grand Beta was released at 21:23:33 PDT.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 On September 30, 2016, PC Master Rips was initially released at 10:54:44 PDT, with the title PC Master Rips [EARLY ACCESS]. Six more tracks were added to the album between 11:15:02 PDT and 21:26:20 PDT. It was announced on Twitter at 21:25:20 PDT that the album had been "completed", and the album was renamed to its current title. The album was also reordered manually on Bandcamp so that it would be chronologically placed after The Phantom Rips: Subsistence and Five Nights at Freddy's Original Soundtrack, which were respectively released at 18:03:26 PDT and 19:00:52 PDT that day.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 On August 22, 2017, DAMN. was released at 23:00:02 PDT, and wood man's very nice album ...feat. mega man, i guess was released at 23:00:17 PDT. The albums were reordered manually on Bandcamp.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 On December 26, 2017, Rips of Christmas Past was released at 21:29:48 PST, and Rips of Christmas Future was released at 21:30:02 PST.
- ↑ Now That's What I Call Quality! 2 was initially released exclusively for attendees of the MAGFest 2019 SiIvaGunner Panel on January 4, 2019, and became publicly available on March 30, 2019.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 On January 8, 2020, FIRST STRIKE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 1 was released at 16:40:12 PST, and SECOND WIND ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 2 and FINAL BOUT ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 3 were both released at 16:40:25 PST.
- ↑ MAXIMUM QUALITY ACHIEVED was initially released exclusively for attendees of the MAGFest 2020 SiIvaGunner Panel on January 3, 2020, and became publicly available on February 3, 2020. The release date was manually set to January 2, 2020, which was the day that "MAXIMUM QUALITY ACHIEVED" was played live at the "High Quality RAVE" event.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 On September 2, 2020, SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side A] was released at 00:34:17 PDT, and SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side B] was released at 00:34:27 PDT.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 On September 7, 2020, Sensational Celebrations ~ The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival Collection [Event Side] was released at 17:17:20 PDT, and Summer-Colored Smiles ~ The SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival Collection was released at 17:18:29 PDT. The albums were reordered manually on Bandcamp.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 On November 6, 2020, SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume for Nintendo 3DS was released at 18:06:54 PST, and SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume for Wii U was released at 18:08:19 PST. The albums were reordered manually on Bandcamp.
- ↑ A partial version of Halation Celebration ~ 10th Anniversary Tribute to Snow halation was released via YouTube and Google Drive on December 25, 2020. The full version of the album was released on Bandcamp on January 1, 2021.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 On September 14, 2021, Legends of the Western Sunset ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection was released at 22:12:26 PDT, and Bloodstained Bounties ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection [Event Side] was released at 22:12:31 PDT.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 On October 11, 2021, SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D was released at 08:29:45 PDT, and SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume C was released at 08:33:01 PDT. The albums were reordered manually on Bandcamp.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 On January 22, 2022, The Space Jam Charity SLAM!: B-Ball Side was released at 14:55:48 PST, and The Inevitable Holiday Album was released at 17:54:06 PST.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 On October 3, 2022, SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume FF was released at 15:09:07 PDT, and SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ was released at 15:09:20 PDT.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 On April 1, 2023, the announcement video for Mediatonic's HighestQuality Video Game Rips Volume WOO was released at 13:30:03 PDT, and the announcement video for GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips Volume 5 (Beta Mix) was released at 19:30:11 PDT.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 On November 15, 2023, SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire was released at 16:06:21 PST, and SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Ruby was released at 16:06:28 PST. The albums were reordered manually on Bandcamp.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 On February 1, 2024, The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A] was released at 12:00:40 PST, and The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side B] was released at 12:00:50 PST.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Now That's What I Call Quality! 3 and ULTIMATE QUALITY ACHIEVED were initially released exclusively for attendees of the Super MAGFest 2024 SiIvaGunner Panel on January 18, 2024, and became publicly available on February 3, 2024.
References
- ↑ "You guys said I’d get 200 more codes for free every month! Well, where are they?" on Bandcamp Help Center
- ↑ Wayback Machine
- ↑ Wayback Machine
- ↑ Wayback Machine
- ↑ YouTube community post by SiIvaGunner
- ↑ Tweet by SiIvaGunner (@GiIvaSunner)
- ↑ this will be happening, making the sgfr stuff was a stepping stone for that. in the meantime the emergency index will have to do though https://highquality.rip/albums.html - Tweet by MtH
- ↑ Tweet thread by Chaze the Chat