As I was talking with a few friends this morning, I was told that a lot of Synapse X’s history is now inaccessible, mainly because of V3rmillion’s abandon. While archived copies of V3rmillion exist, they have not backed up all of the images that were hosted on Imgur and vgy, whose old content has been purged of anyway. Fortunately, because I am an excellent archiver, I backed up an enormous amount of Synapse X-related content over the years, which were gathering dust in an old WD red NAS drive improperly stored in my closet.

To start 2025 well, I decided to plug the drive into my computer and post some of this content here. Some of it are things that are no longer accessible, and some of it are things that were never seen, such as pre-release pictures, prototypes, and interesting stuff that some of you may be interested in. Do note that I’m posting this content entirely for educational and historical purposes and I no longer hold any of the claims made in the content as true.

Logos

Main logos

2018 Prototype logos

You may recall that Synapse X had a lot of logos. When we initially released Synapse X in October 2018, we had a set of modernized, orange-based logos that were honestly more placeholders than final designs. However, the release date was rapidly approaching and I wasn’t creative enough to design a proper one, so the placeholders were rolled in the release product.

Synapse Xen, our first obfuscator, also got a logo of its own that didn’t really published anywhere. It was meant to be used for the obfuscator’s commercialization, but as we never sold it and kept it for the Synapse X ecosystem, the logo never saw the light of day.

A product that we planned on developing, but eventually shelved, was Synapse Vuxi, which aimed to be a kind of script distribution platform tightly integrated within Synapse X. However, we discontinued it because we preferred the advantage of having V3rmillion host the scripts for us.

Early 2019

In 2019, we decided that the placeholder Synapse X logo sucked. We came up with multiple prototypes, such as a painted X and a slightly flatter monogram, but we eventually stuck with the round version of the SYN monogram that we used across our branding and it remained for around a year. It was subsequently altered to include a calligraphic “X”. In retrospect, I prefer the flatter monogram over the perfectly round one.

The logo was also used for some of our Discord server’s branding. These were such great images and it took forever to make them in Paint.NET, and I was pretty sad that they were replaced by memes.

The monogram was also used for a few unannounced products. The first one was the Synapse Compatibility Layer for Linux (SCLL), which was an independent attempt at making Roblox work on Linux operating systems using Synapse X’s patches. It went unreleased because we didn’t have sufficient manpower to maintain the product alongside Synapse X.

The second one was for Synapse U, which aimed to port Synapse X to mobile platforms. It was one of the first attempts to seriously make an exploit for mobile Roblox, but it went nowhere for the exact same reason as the SCLL.

The third one was for Synapse Cloud, which was a much earlier version of the Synapse Silicon project. In short, it was meant to be a service offered under the SaaS model that provided an independent script execution engine that developers could attach to their scripts, but unlike Silicon, it had an upfront fee. This project’s development never really took off until it was rebooted as Silicon years later.

Late 2019

Later in 2019, it was decided that the new logo also sucked and we needed to return to one we used for the original Synapse exploit (the one that existed between 2016 and 2018). However, we lost the original files and had to remake it, which resulted in this half-baked copy that used the wrong font. Since this logo was the one in use during Synapse X’s popularity boom, it unfortunately became the most popular one for a time and was posted everywhere.

2020

In 2020, one of our developers managed to recover a particularly high-resolution version of the original Synapse logo while browsing an old archive of Synapse development files. We immediately converted it into a vector, exported even higher-resolution versions of it, and used it as our new, stable logo for Synapse X 2.0. The side-effect of the vector conversion introduced a very mild set of dents in the “N”, but it was barely noticeable so we approved it anyway.

2021

The Synapse logo was again altered in early 2021 with the release of a new thread design on V3rmillion. A mild metallic gradient was applied to the text, which became the final public version of the logo.

2022 (unreleased)

A further alteration to the logo was done for Synapse X 3.0, which added bevels to the text. However, as Synapse X 3.0 never released, this logo was never published. This would have been Synapse’s new and final logo.

3D logos

Three-dimensional versions of the Synapse logo were rendered for marketing purposes. The smaller one was made into a shirt that was sold in our now-defunct merch shop.

Merch logos

The Synapse logo was remixed multiple times for our merch shop.

syn.tv

For a time, we maintained a public Minecraft server to test our infrastructure for - I am not joking - a potential acquisition of 2B2T. We called it syn.tv and while the server was pretty laggy, it wasn’t completely unplayable. As can be guessed, our acquisition of 2B2T never went forward since we eventually lost interest and we had other things to do.

Synapse Emerald

Some of you may remember the time when we publicly announced the development of a Minecraft cheat called “Synapse Emerald”. This project actually got somewhere, but as Synapse X 2020 was picking up pace, we had to shelve it.

The two logos above were published, but they sucked. I eventually designed a proper logo in the form of a cactus, but it never saw the light of day.

Fan art

As part of a giveaway competition, we asked some of our users to produce their own take on the Synapse X logo. We saved the winners, which you can now see here. Their usernames can be found in the filenames.

Cakes

…and also cakes, which was part of another giveaway competition.

Ads

Banner ads

When V3rmillion started selling advertising space, we didn’t really bother with it until we grew comfortable paying V3rmillion for things, starting with our quite expensive usergroup. When we got approved to post ads, I started designing a few every month or so. Not all of them were published since some were considered too sensitive, but they were all intended to be unserious.

Posters

Two posters were produced during Synapse X’s life, one that was designed prior to its release and served as the announcement, and another incomplete one designed in 2020 that was meant to announce Synapse X 2020 (before it was eventually renamed to Synapse X 3.0).

Early SX 3.0 development

Synapse X 3.0 (previously called Synapse X 2020) was in development from 2019 until 2023, when we partnered up with Roblox and discontinued the exploit. The existence of the rewrite remained a secret for the majority of its existence until a year before our partnership, during which I took many, many screenshots and pictures of its development. If you’re interested in what Synapse X 3.0’s alpha releases looked like, take a peek.

None of the pictures are in order, just so you know.

For comparison, here was the latest version of Synapse X 3.0’s design. I just feel the need to point out that the Synapse AI sidebar was more of a joke feature than anything else and wouldn’t have been part of the final release.

Videos

During Synapse X’s development, I wanted (for a short period of time) to transition from text-based announcements to video-based announcements. I produced some assets for them, including the two following intro videos. They went unused however since I figured that video-based announcements would be worse.