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Formatting Your Email

After you’ve produced your high-quality rip, the most important part of the process is to make sure your email is as legible and streamlined as possible, as that makes the team’s job easier!

First of all, the subject line. With rare exceptions, all rips on SiIvaGunner have the ideal, streamlined format of the track name and then the game name, separated by a hyphen. Make sure your email subject is just that!

[Text shown: Track - Game in the subject line]

(Note that in some special cases, such as submitting to an event, you may wish to add to the subject line with the event’s name, like so!) 

[Text shown: [Grand Dad Event] Track - Game]

The next essential part of the email is the body. The first part of the body should be the metadata. You know, the title and description, something every SiIvaGunner rip needs! Make sure you include the following:

• The track name and game name, separated by a hyphen, just like in the subject line.
• The Music field, containing the track name. [For detailed instructions on how mix names work, see the description!]
• The composer of the song you’re ripping. If you don’t know the composer or there wasn’t a composer credit in the game, just write “N/A” or leave it blank.
• The playlist, followed by a link to the playlist if it exists. If it doesn’t, just leave it blank.
• The platforms the game is on. Typically, we list the platforms from when the game was FIRST released: otherwise, refer to the channel’s listing of the game for more information.

After you put the metadata, the most important part is the rip itself!Include a link to your rip where we can easily preview AND download it--please don’t host the file on a website which makes us have to download it directly before getting to listen!Here are some examples of websites we endorse for uploading rips:

• Google Drive [please make sure you have “anyone with the link” viewing/download turned on!]
• Dropbox [same goes for Dropbox, too! Enable a sharing link.]

Do not attach the rip directly to the email.

We accept the following formats for submission: MP3 for audio, and MP4 or other similar compressed video formats for video.

After this part, you need to explain the joke of your rip. Be as clear and concise as possible, and make sure you explain every joke no matter HOW obvious it may seem! Including timestamps for what’s changed can help too.

Finally, at the very bottom of the rip, you need to include the following line:

“I understand that this is an anonymous submission and that I will not be credited.”

This is what we call an NDA, or Non-Disclosure Agreement--meaning you agree to not promote yourself as the creator in the comment section of the rip. We here at SiIvaGunner like to maintain a sense of kayfabe to keep the channel’s magic going! Of course, you are free to upload the rip to your website or other public platform--but you may only do this after the rip has been published. Keep it a surprise!

Once you’ve got everything down and have double checked your email for any errors, you are finally ready to send your rip to SiIvaGunner!

…or are you?

Part 3: The Banlist

While we accept a wide, diverse range of musical video games and genres, we do not allow certain types of submissions. Here are just a few examples of rips we do not allow and will be rejected:

• Rips of these specific tracks: “Title Theme - The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy”, and “Snow halation - Love Live! School idol festival”.
• Rips labelled under fake games, except for already established cases such as Maroon GO.
• Rips that are just unedited audio. After all, the worst joke is no joke at all.
• Anything related to The Jetsons.
• Anything that violates the YouTube terms of service, such as gore, porn imagery, shock imagery, and other unsavory topics.
• Rips that involve the following: songs by Morimori Atsushi, rips using any direct audio from the Re:CREATORS soundtrack unless modified heavily, and rips featuring sentai show footage. Unfortunately, those are all due to YouTube’s strict copyright detection. We don’t want another January 2019!
• And of course, straight MIDI-slaps, the laziest form of low quality rip.

If your rip contains any of these, it is very likely you will get no response.

Part 4: The… “Discouraged” List

There are also a few things we discourage but that are not outright banned. Tread carefully with these, and remember it’s less likely to get a response if you submit the following:

• Rips that contain out of key notes/vocals (unless that’s the joke)
• Rips that go out of sync/beat (unless that's the joke)
• Rips that contain low quality audio (unless that’s the joke)
• Ripping a track which has already been ripped multiple times (more than 5) on our channel. In general, the more times a song has been ripped, the higher the standards are for it. This includes reused tracks (such as some tracks heard in the Super Mario Maker games, for example).
• Any audio or footage that will get your rip blocked in a lot of countries, such as songs by Kanye West or Drake. If you use these songs, we recommend privately uploading them to your own channel beforehand to test how YouTube copyright reacts.
• Rips of music that doesn't originate from video games, even if the music technically appears in a video game. Exceptions are sometimes made if they’re for related channel events.  For more detailed information on what you are not allowed or discouraged to submit, please read the video description.

Part 5:  Possible Email Responses

So, you’ve formatted your email correctly and you’ve finally gotten a reply! Great work. But what does the email say? We’ll go through a few possibilities.If your rip has no errors, then we’ll send you confirmation we’ve accepted it! Expect to see it on the channel in the near future. Make sure you keep that lossless file on hand--we may ask you to send us this file in the future, in case we may need it for an album!

If your rip has some errors, then we will send you a list of them that you need to fix. Should you need to fix your rip, you can just reply to this email without needing to copy the previous metadata. Additionally, in some cases we may ask you to agree to the terms of anonymity if you did not in your initial email. Make sure you reply to the last email you received, and keep everything in the same thread.

But what if you don’t get a reply? We understand that not getting an answer to your email may be sad, but don’t worry--we’ve almost certainly read it. We just don’t have the time to respond to every single email since we get a lot of them, so there’s absolutely no need for you to bump them. If you don’t get a response, don’t worry! You are always welcome to send more rips in.

Part 6: Other Notes to Remember

Do you feel ready to submit to SiIvaGunner now? Well, we just have a few more notes before you go.

• Don’t submit your rip to multiple YouTube channels! If you emailed us a rip and we find it’s already been published on another YouTube channel or SoundCloud track, in “rip” format or otherwise, then we reserve the right to reject it.
• Double-check your metadata! There are plenty of common mistakes people make when people write out their metadata, including cutoff playlist links, listing the wrong platforms, double spaces and more! Refer to this guide, or the channel itself, to see what’s correct! We also have more detailed notes in the description if you’re unsure.
• When submitting a rip for an event, please try to submit it as soon as you can. We understand that you can’t know when an event ends, but submitting earlier helps us ensure the highest quality.
• We reserve the right to reject any specific requests for upload dates, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll reject your rip too.
• Always check the bitrate you render your rips in. We prefer 320 kbps MP3.
• If a game has never been ripped before, you’re welcome to whip up a thumbnail for it! It’s not required, but we certainly do appreciate it! If you DO submit one, please keep these rules in mind.
• Make sure it is 1080p resolution.
• Make sure it is high quality, of course, meaning it’s not blurry, makes use of accurate assets, and uses proper pixel art scaling if applicable. 
• Please refer to the existing thumbnails on the channel for examples.
• We do not recommend submitting lossless files such as WAVs or FLACs unless we ask you to! If we DO ask you, you will get a reply on your original email. Please reply with your credit and the track name, formatted like this: 
• “Barney Rubble - My Awesome Rip”
• and include a link to your lossless file, in WAV or FLAC format. [caption: Again, a link, not a direct upload to the email!]

Remember, we’re including a text version of this guide in this video’s description that you can always keep handy!

Part 7: The Grand Conclusion

Well, you are now ready to email to SiIvaGunner.

If you find that you enjoy it, why not try ripping more? Make what you’d love to see on the channel a reality. If you need more specific help on submitting or just ripping in general, feel free to ask in the channel designed for it in our Discord server.

And who knows… if you get enough rips accepted, we may even ask you to join the team! This is by no means a guarantee, of course… but never say never!

Thanks for watching this guide, and we hope you have fun submitting to our channel!!

This presentation has been endorsed and paid for by Haltmann Works Company.

For a written version of this guide with some more details, refer to this video’s description.