MAGFest 2018 SiIvaGunner Panel

**MAGFest 2018 SiIvaGunner Panel**
Type of event	Real life panel
Host	; None
Start date	January 3, 2018
End date	January 7, 2018
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The MAGFest 2018 SiIvaGunner panel was a panel hosted by members of the SiIvaGunner team at MAGFest 2018. An "official mirror" was uploaded as "High Quality Rips Panel - Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center". (The true mirror is "The SiIvaGunner Panel at Super MAGFest 2018: Official Cringe Compilation".)

The team would host a panel the following year for MAGFest 2019.

Summary

On November 13, 2017, the SiIvaGunner team announced that they were guests at MAGfest through the video "A MAGnificent Announcement (SilvaGunner at MAGFest 2018!)".

During MAGfest, the team hosted several streams:

"MAGFest with Gadget" on January 3, 2018.
January 4, 2018: "Live A Live Live", "- intermission -", "Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix lv1 CM", "Mario kart 8".

...all of which were later put into the Haltmann's Archives playlist.

The panel was hosted on January 6, 2018 at 8:00PM, with a signing six hours before from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.^[1]

During the panel, members of the team talked about the SiIvaGunner channel, including its time as GiIvaSunner, the Reboot, the Season 1 Finale, The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis, the Monochrome Pause, the various takeovers (Inspector Gadget, Reboot Anniversary, Wood Man), and 2018's Season 3 while they wait for the CCC to finish. ShonicTH hosted a segment on making a rip. After this, Chaze the Chat announced that Grand Dad would appear in Episode 11 of the CCC. Then, a Q&A segment was held where fans asked the team several questions. A music video for My Way (short ver.) - The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Original Soundtrack was shown as the "MAGFest trailer" for the CCC, and then the team thanked the audience with "Minecraft with Gadget".

Attendees were given access to the album Now That's What I Call Quality!, which was not released publicly until over a month later.

Panel hosts

(from right to left)

Transcript

[Trailer plays]

[Crowd cheers as the trailer ends]

Mic checks

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

[During the mic checks the trailer plays again]

Chaze the Chat:

What's happenin', forum?

Matsu Muhō:

Epic.

yodooder:

Uh, hi.

PinkieOats:

I'm Bob Dylan~.

ShonicTH:

Hey, gamers.

Matsu:

Hey, gamers.

trivial171:

Hello.

Pinkie:

I'm Bob Dylan~

Shonic:

Hey, gamers.

Chaze:

Epic.

Hinchy:

C.G.!

yodoooder:

Gay.

Matsu:

Grand.

yodooder:

[responding to an audience member] "One day, though.

Hinchy:

[responding to an audience member] "I don't know what you're talking about. This is just, um- This is just the- uh, Gaylord Hotel infomercial.

yodooder:

Yeah that's all that is, really. That just plays all the time and every band[?]

Hinchy:

Yeah it just loops at you're, uh-

Pinkie:

What's up everyone? Silvany Fantano here.

[The trailer ends (again), and the crowd begins chanting "one more time!"]

[The trailer repeats again]

[After the third time:]

Hinchy:

There's five more minutes, guys.

Matsu:

It's just on loop, guys.

yodooder:

Yeah just- it's gonna play by itself. You don't have to worry about it. It's just the hotel's video.

Hinchy:

Yeah. We can't start playing our own video, you know, until at least 8 o' clock, so- this is going to [unintelligible, sounds like "play by itself"]

[The crowd begins clapping to the background music]

[After a few more loops (and several rounds of "one more time!"), they stop playing the trailer.]

Introductions

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

trivial171:

I don't know what the panel does, do you? I don't know.

[Crowd member 1: "Play Undertale!" Crowd member 2: "NO!"]

Chaze the Chat:

Hey everybody I'm here with my good friend SiIvaGunner. How's the panel SiIvaGunner?

trivial:

I'm having a lot of fun." [Crowd member: "YES!" *claps furiously*]

Chaze:

We've got a lot of fun stuff planned for today um I'm chase and I started the SiIvaGunner. Um-

[Crowd cheers]

Chaze:

Um, if you aren't exactly aware of what SiIvaGunner is, it's a channel, that, um... like- it's [unintelligible]. It's a channel where we upload unedited video game music. No, but seriously I'm gonna drop that act 'cause, um, it's a panel. and- we basically changed the melody or just change it into something completely different, something completely unexpected, um, and whether that be a new song, um, a different arrangement um, a funny joke-" [audience members shout the names of a few siivagunner memes] um, just in general it's supposed to be just for the entertainment so, um, we're gonna start by introducing the rest of the team here. Um- You wanna start, Matsu?

Matsu Muhō:

Uh, okay, sure. Yeah, I'm Matsu, I joined, uh, back in May of 2016 became a manager August 2016, um, I mostly make like rips of obscure games, um, to chiptunes and stuff. Yeah. [Audience applauds.] Mhm. Mm.

[Crowd claps]

yodooder:

Dialogue

Hinchy:

Hi I'm, uh, Hinchy uh I joined the- I started submitting in March of 2016, I became a manager early 2017, uh, I brought the laptop. and uh-" [Crowd: "Yeah!"] "Uh, I'm one of the- I-I-I- I submitted several rips for our um Totino's Mania thing." [Crowd: "Yeah!"] "But you know- I'm known mostly for creating the Coconut Gun rap." [Crowd cheers.]

Chaze:

Okay. Like I said earlier I'm Chaze and I started the channel so I joined back in January of 2016. Um, and I've tried to make a wide variety of rips, um, I've mostly done games I like, but then if I've heard a song that, um, from a game I've never played and it's really good I'll do a rip of it. Um..

[Hinchy leans in to tell Chaze something]

Chaze:

What?

[Chaze leans back to reply.]

Chaze:

Oh- um- but- um- yeah- um- I've made an appearance on every single SiIvaGunner album. Um, I'm the only one to have perfect attendance [laughs] um and I really like Maroon 5 so um, so yeah uh there's like a Maroon 5 um reference in like every single one of our albums. So yeah (laughs).

ShonicTH:

How's it going, I'm Shonic. Uh, I joined the team in march of 2016 and I became a manager in September of 2016, and I'm responsible for a lot of the Kingdom Hearts rips like Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories.

[Crowd cheers.]

PinkieOats:

Hey everybody I'm PinkieOats uh I joined around March 2016 I'd say. Um... I, am... Bob Dylan~ ooo~. And um I did all of the Etika rips and um...

[The team talk among themselves for a moment]

Pinkie:

Oh, and of course Live and oooooooooo.

Hinchy:

Hear me people in the audience. Believe that tonight, sitting on stage here at MAGFest, [is] the nobel prize winner Bob Dylan. For real. The real Bob Dylan.

Pinkie:

I smoke the weeeeeed.

trivial:

Hey I'm trivial171. I make rips of various games including some very obscure ones like Simple DS Series Vol 1 - The Mahjong." [Crowd loses it] "And I'm back. Uh, alright, enough about- one last thing to say before we go into the next part of the panel. In this bag we've got some album codes. So this is for a special exclusive album only for MAGFest attendees, so after the panel is over please come up here and grab one and you can get a copy of the album for free. And there's no other way to obtain this album right now...

[Crowd cheers]

trivial:

...until someone else puts this online.

Shonic:

We request that you please do not do that, but- If you do that there's nothing else we can do to stop you, so please don't.

The History of SiIvaGunner

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

trivial171:

Okay. So now we're going to talk about the history of the channel.

Chaze the Chat:

Okay so I'm going to take the helm on this one. Um, like I said, I started the channel in January of 2016 and... the reason why I did this was, um... I had just- first, I made the first rip which... was, um... the Ruby & Sapphire Pokémon battling theme. I just changed it to The Flintstones theme. Um, and, um, it was just, like, supposed to be a little joke that I made for my friends and... my friends really seemed to find it really funny, so I uploaded it to my SoundCloud and then- [Audience member: "Yeah SoundCloud!"] I had an idea, like, what if I uploaded it and pretended it was real- like, pretended it was a real song, um... So, after I uploaded it- or, well, first I needed a channel and I thought [of] GilvaSunner the music video uploader- he was- he was popular, so I was like, okay, let's make him. Um, so, like, I basically made GiIvaSunner which was supposed to pose as him, and I uploaded the first rip as... like, basically matching his format as best I could. Um, and then one of my friends noticed it and was like, "Hey can I upload something?" And I was like, "Sure." So then he sent me a rip, and then we just kept expanding, and more of my friends started submitting things and it just kinda... kinda blew up. Um, and then we had multiple celebr- or like, internet celebrities find it and start promoting us on Twitter and stuff, and that lead to increasing in subscribers at a massive rate.

yodooder:

Yeah, actually, special shoutouts to Temmie who's up next after us. She retweeted us and, like, we got pretty big right after that. Anyway, so [unintelligible, sounds like "everyone can go back"]

Hinchy:

And right around this time, you know, I was just no one, I didn't know any of these people and a friend of mine just, one day, he sent me sent me a video it was- it looked like it was from GilvaSunner, said uh, "Delfino Plaza - Super Mario Sunshine" [Crowd reacts.] "And down the rabbit hole I went." [Crowd laughs.]

Chaze:

Okay, so after- around this time, um, I started planning the first album, because I was like, 'Okay, we're getting big and I think people are really starting to get curious, um, who's making the songs or whatever.' So, um, I started planning the album and, um, the production of the first album was really stressful for me because I had never done something like this before. I had to coordinate things with everyone. Um, um, the trailer like, was given to me like 5 hours before the album was supposed to come out. So it was- it was really stressful but, um, we eventually got it out and, um, I think the first album was one of our best despite it having some "theory" problems, and just all around kind of messiness. But, um, that lead into, um, a few days later we ended up getting shut down. The original GiIvaSunner channel got shut down and on April, um, 5th or 6th, uh, one of those days...

Hinchy:

It's worth noting that the real GilvaSunner was cool with us. We actually had just done an April Fools thing where we basically swapped for a day. Uh, the real GilvaSunner uploaded one of our 'high quality rips', and we just uploaded real actual unaltered game music that sounded like it was going to turn into The Flintstones but didn't." [Windows alert sound plays]. "Oh go away, I don't need [unintelligible as crowd becomes rowdy]" "I ju- I just reinstalled Windows 10. There is nothing bad on this machine... except for Wood Man.

Chaze:

Okay, so after GiIva got shut down for impersonation, I was like, okay, so now I should probably-- I didn't want to try fighting YouTube because I probably didn't have a very good case against it. So I was like-- okay, so this requires a little bit of a history lesson. There was a YouTube channel prior to GilvaSunner called SilvaGunner, and they got deleted for copyright reasons, and GilvaSunner was created as like a tribute to SilvaGunner, so I was like, okay, what if we did a reverse of that, and we came back as SiIvaGunner. So that's what we did, and we planned, like, a Metal Gear album and everything, and we came back just a few days after we got shut down, and we got almost as big as we were within a few months. It was great. And then we kept uploading for a little bit, and then we got to a point where Snow halation, one of our big memes, [crowd cheers, and somebody yells, "GOD, NO!"] was starting to get a lot of mass dislikes, so what we did was we made a video where Chad Warden, the infamous internet troll who loves Sony and PlayStation 3, and hates-- [responding to audience members] um, yeah, the PS Triple... and we had him yell at the Snow halation haters, and we made another Chad Warden video after that, but it didn't really stop the dislikes, so what we did was we-- in one day we hatched a scheme called The Reboot, and what we did was we got rid of The Flintstones and Snow halation, and our other running joke, The World's Loudest Orgasm, and we replaced them with the Simpsons theme and the Family Guy theme, and GO MY WAY!! from THE iDOLM@STER, and the Howie scream. And along with this, we did a storyline and an alternate reality game, or otherwise known as an ARG, and basically, we basically kept up the story. This was like the first time we'd ever kept up, like, a story alongside the channel. [An audience member shouts, "Lore!"] Yeah, lore! [Two different audience members shout, "Is this lore?"] And then, the Reboot ended with Snow halation and all the other songs coming back and the universes merging. So then we basically got rid of all the other running jokes besides GO MY WAY!!, we still use that one.

Hinchy:

Also, that said alternate reality game, we required people to watch through an entire 30-minute episode of The Nutshack, so that also became a running joke.

Chaze:

Okay, so, with that, we entered the era called the "Post-Reboot" era, and this is when we were starting to come up with kind of original running-- or like, not entirely original, but like... we started using The Nutshack a lot, which started really blowing up, and then we started using the POKEMON GO SONG!!! by Misha, and We Are Number One, and things like that, and then after that, I decided that the channel, I didn't really think that we could really do much more with the channel, so I decided to end the channel on September 30th, 2016, and we stopped, we're not uploading any more. No! Um...

ShonicTH:

I think that was around the time I was promoted to backroom as well.

Chaze:

So, yeah, anyway... We had planned a few events afterwards. Like, we were going to do a Halloween event, which we did, and then we were gonna do a Christmas event, which we also did, and we are still currently in. Happy Christmas 2016, everyone!

yodooder:

Christmas in July.

Chaze:

So the Christmas event was basically to bring back the story element of the series, and it just became a huge undertaking, and the story itself-- the videos were harder to make than it seemed, so the Christmas special videos are still being made, but they're just hard, like-- they're just-- they take a long time, so that's why they're not out.

Hinchy:

And they continually became more elaborate as we went on. You know, at first it was just a very simple visual novel format that required a lot less individual, you know, pieces of art for individual moments of scenes, and it just... it just, you know, snowballed.

yodooder:

It became a lot more ambitious, just as we went along.

Chaze:

And then the team, the backroom team, was getting frustrated with how long it was taking to make the Christmas episodes, so we decided to pause the channel on Valentine's Day.

Hinchy:

We really did intend for SiIvaGunner to end entirely, forever, at the end of Christmas 2016, when we did the whole twelve episodes of the series, it's just that... there's still two more episodes.

Chaze:

So anyway, we paused the channel, and we stayed paused for about a month and a half, and then in the beginning of April, I decided, okay, so since the CCC's taking a while or whatever, why don't we just continue uploading? And I basically got my passion back for uploading rips and stuff, so I made a lot more rips, and I think a lot of other people did too. And then around this time, we started having more takeovers. Like we did an Inspector Gadget takeover where Inspector Gadget took over the channel. He took over the channel for a week and a half. It was intended to be a week, but we got such a negative response to the Gadget rips that we decided to extend it another half a week. And we also had, for the anniversary of the Reboot, we had Chad Warden Day, where he uploaded rips of Chicken and Chips. And we had an event for Wood Man's birthday, who is a big part of the channel.

Hinchy:

He's very nice. [audience members say "nice >:]" in response]

Chaze:

And now we're in a state where we're basically uploading eight rips a day, sometimes more, and it's just really awesome, while we're waiting for the rest of the CCC to come out.

Hinchy:

Now that we're in 2018, we are calling this Season 3.

[someone in the audience very loudly shouts "YEAAAAHHHH!!", and the audience cheers]

Chaze:

Yeah, that's where we are right now. So with that, I think I'm going to hand it over to Shonic.

How to Make a Rip

CCC Announcements

Q & A

Ground rules

To open the dropdown, click "Expand".

Hinchy:

Yeah, it's uh, it's time to open up the floor for uh Q&A if you would please line up in front of the microphone and please, uh, just a couple of ground rules real quick. One: keep it to one question per person please; Two: can uh- please no just- joke / meme questions, we- we like fun, unexpected questions, for sure, but don't just- y'know come up and say, uh...

Shonic:

Don't ask 'cause we already know what the PPAP song is. We already know-

Hinchy:

There we go, exactly.

yodooder:

Yeah, we have a finite amount of time

Hinchy:

Don't come up here and ask 'Why must I Chaze the Cat?' [Slight pause] And, finally... no requests. Do not request us to make a rip.

Chaze:

Do not request to make a rip because, um, it all depends on how easy it is to make a rip, how it- yeah-

Hinchy:

And we all have all kinds of projects we're working on right now-

Asker #1:

This mic is as big as me...

Matsu Muhō:

I mean, we just showed you how to make rips, so if you want something made, like, seriously give it a try and make it yourself.

[yodooder and Hinchy talking over one another:]

yodooder:

It's- it's a really good approximation of what we just got

Hinchy:

It- to get you- So many people got started on the channel because of exactly that. They wanted to hear something so they decide to make it themselves and now they're a part of our team.

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

Question 1: "Is SoundCloud dead?"

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

Asker #1:

Are we starting now?

Hinchy:

So I guess we are.

Asker:

Okay... is SoundCloud dead? 'Cause I've been trying to upload them to them to my soundcloud because you bascially devolved my soundcloud into my meme thing like they always make a ton. it's [removed] (that's my soundcloud, Shh) but is it dead because some of my stuff gets more uploads than others i think my highest for some reason my highest downloaded thing of mine is this stupid kids bop I made in the wub machine is like 87 downloads and that's like my most-listened-to post, but is it dead because it feels like that contributes to the thing too, because like a lot of you guys do your work on that because I've noticed that?

Hinchy:

We've been kind of sort of grown from the s- what they called the SoundClown community um-

Asker:

I miss that community very dearly.

Chaze:

Just a site note: I really hate the term soundclown so um yeah.

Hinchy:

Me too.

Asker:

Sound rip? i don't know-

yodooder:

I don't upload to soundcloud any more uh... [several people start to say something, but trail off] personally.

Shonic:

I've honestly never really used SoundCloud. I made an account but just like I upload a couple stu- things and I'm just like 'I'm better off just uploading to Siiva.'

Matsu:

I don't think anyone here is an authority on whether or not SoundCloud is dead. I don't think it's an uh, applicable question.

yodooder:

I don't really know anything about SoundCloud or use it or ever pay attention-

Asker:

Also...

yodooder:

to it.

Chaze:

I-

Asker:

One more question...

Chaze:

I- uh, um, ooh, only one question, sorry.

Asker:

I love you guys, by the way, too.

Chaze and Shonic:

Oh yeah! Thank you so much.

yodooder:

Well that's a statement, you can give as many statements as you want.

Hinchy:

I-i-i-i-i-it's worth noting, um, it's worth pointing out that, like, while I'm not like i use soundcloud a little bit but from people i've heard that have used it more they've made a lot of unpopular decisions and continue to make unpopular decisions and that might have something to do with the fact that it's been getting less activity lately, but... That's secondary information, but it's worth pointing out.

Matsu:

Okay, uh, next question. Next question, please.

Question 2: "How long did the Christmas Mega Man rip take to make?"

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

Asker #2:

How long did the Christmas Mega Man rip, that came out I believe last year- wasn't that a couple hours long- how long did that take to make?

Matsu:

That was a significant amount of effort. I'm not the person in charge of that, but I'm the person up here who did the most for it. So basically people just would transcribe a few bars of melody, like eight or so, and put it into G-sharp minor or G-sharp major, and send it to us and fill in the spreadsheet. It only took me a couple hours to write the scripts that assembled all the midis that were submitted into one big long midi, and we basically just imported that into FL Studio and ran it through a VST that makes a square wave that sounds like the NES. So it was a lot of work by a lot of people, we had a lot of fun making it, and it got way out of hand. I don't think we ever though it was going to be an hour and 41 minutes.

Question 3: "How did 'Snow halation' become a thing?"

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Asker #3: Hey. So, uh, how did 'Snow halation' first become a thing, like who instigated that and were you guys surprised by the traction that got?

Question 4: [Airhorn noise]

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

[Audience member: "Shut up."]

Asker #4:

Shut up. I got a question for you, okay? Hold on, [let me] get it prepared on my phone 'cause I'm so nervous. Hold on. [Plays airhorn noise, people laugh.] D-do you have like an answer for that?

Chaze the Chat:

I have a request.

Asker:

Yeah?

Chaze:

It's five nights at snop dog.

Asker:

Snop dogs? Snop dogs you idiot- okay, nevermind. I love you guys, so much.

[Multiple replies of "Thank you" from the team.]

"Question" 5: A gift to Chaze

Question 6: "Who would win, L.A.M.A.J. or ERIOIOIRE?"

Question 7: "How do you feel about being the reason why there are more Love Live fans out there?"

Question 8: "Would you consider collaborating with more live performances?"

Question 9: "What SoundFonts do you use for the NES rips?"

To read this section, click "Show transcript".
Hinchy: Okay, quicker questions, quicker answers, let's go. Asker #9: Alright, my question is short. What SoundFonts do you use for the older stuff, like NES? Do you use stuff that comes with FL Studio, or...?

Question 10: "What communities do you participate in outside of SiIvaGunner?"

Question 11: "Where does your logo come from?"

Question 12: "Who did the Flat Zone 2 rip? / Why aren't you performing live?"

Question 13: "Vinesauce Joel has been a large part of the channel's identity. What was your relationship with Joel like during your collaborations?"

Question 14: "Do you have plans for more collabs like the Wood Man Fusion Collab?"

Question 15: "What software other than Famitracker do you use?"

Question 16: "Were there any rips that you tried your best to do, but didn't work out?"

Question 17: "What's the most memorable YouTube you've received?"

Question 18: "Do any of you play any instruments?"

Question 19: "Who is in charge of the Rhythm Heaven Remix 10 rips and how long do they take to make?"

To read this section, click "Show transcript".

Chaze the Chat:

Um, this is going to be the last question-

Hinchy:

Yes, unfortunately.

Chaze the Chatbecause we have a video we need to show at the end.:

Dialogue

Hinchy:

We do have a special thing

Chaze:

Um, but, um, if you have any more questions we're gonna be around after the show.

Hinchy:

Yeah, we will stick around for a little while so please come up and ask.

Chaze:

Come up to us. We can take pictures and stuff, too, it'll be fun.

yodooder:

Yeah we won't bite.

PinkieOats:

And don't forget about the album codes

Chaze:

Yeah, the album codes.

yodooder:

Album codes, come get 'em.

Hinchy:

Get those album codes.

[Audience member yells something.]

Chaze:

Okay.

Hinchy:

Okay, Last question, make it good.

Asker #18:

My absolute favorite rips are every single Rhythm Heaven Remix 10 rips. I was- I was- wondering who's in charge of those and how long do they take to make?

Chaze:

Um, the person who makes all- almost all of the rhythm heaven rips is Akfamilyhome but the remix ten ones I think they were all made by different people definitely one of them was digboy boy who made one he made the first one. I'm not exactly sure who made the other ones because the channel is really huge and there's a lot of rips to remember but um yeah I'm not sure exactly how long they take but they- they definitely- are fun to make if- since we have a lot of them.

yodooder:

And if you're ever curious about who makes certain rips whenever we-, we released the album's on Bandcamp we actually have the actual people who made said rip as on the credits.

Thanks and Goodbyes

Mirrors

"MAGFest 2018: SiIvaGunner Panel" (low/muffled audio; starts at 13:24)
"The SiIvaGunner Panel at Super MAGFest 2018: Official Cringe Compilation" (High quality mirror recorded by the SiIvaGunner team)

References

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