What are Test Modes?
What are Test Modes?
A ‘Test Mode’ is a secret mode that is implemented into every electronic device that allows manufacturers to test the device’s functionality and sounds programmed in. For Bop It games, this can include the actions of the game, all sounds and audio voice clips put into the sound chip, lights, and some even have sensor testing. Often before you can access the sound test, you will hear a loud beep with a high frequency. That’s called a sine wave, and that tests the speaker.
When going into a Test Mode of a Bop It, you must either hold a certain combination of actions or buttons, then press in the RESET button, or remove a battery while holding actions and then reinserting the battery. Every Bop It has what’s known as a ‘Revision Number’, which is mostly used by manufacturers if a version of Bop It had a revision with some fixes, such as a better speaker, or a very slight change in the programming.
In the Test Modes, there are many different Bop It units that have different pitches when their audio is played. These are determined by a component in the game’s circuit board called a ‘crystal oscillator’. This is typically a capsule-shaped metal piece on the circuit board. The pitches in Bop It units are determined by the size in frequency (using Hertz as a unit of measurement), where the sine wave speaker beep will either be higher or lower, depending on the frequency that was set by the crystal oscillator. The higher the frequency is in Hertz, the higher the pitch will be. Most Bop It units have an average frequency of about 1000 Hz. You can find out information about the crystal oscillator from two videos on the Bop Diva YouTube channel if you click here, and here.
Check out my YouTube channel by clicking the link here, and find my video on every Bop It Test Mode ever! That video is from 2020, but there is now a 2024 updated version of the video, where Test Modes play from Longest to Shortest. You can find that video by clicking here. It’s also located at the bottom of this page.
But, for now, if you would like to know the Revision Numbers for each Bop It, some of which are the same version but different revisions, depending on the unit, you can check the list below. The Revision Numbers will be listed in order by the number from lowest to highest.
In this list, I am also including the Revision Numbers for ALL Bop It Test Modes that I can find off YouTube, so there are plenty of Bop It versions I do not have in this list. All Bop It units listed in red are foreign / international versions. The Bop It units listed in blue are Revision Numbers that are not confirmed, but after testing, I think they exist.
1 - Bop It Button (Retail Version) (2023)
(Mexico, Alto Puntuación) 1 - Bop It Micro Series (1.0, Latin American Spanish)
1.36 - Bop It (2016)
1.7 - Bop It Bounce (initial release)
1.8 - Bop It Bounce (later releases)
2 - Simon Challenge! (German Bop It Extreme 2)
2 - Simon Challenge! (Dutch Bop It Extreme 2)
2 - Bop It Extreme 2 (Italian)
(Italian, Punteggio) 2 - Bop It Classic (2013) (Italian)
(Score) 2 - Bop It Olaf
(Score) 2 - Bop It (2019) (French)
2 (Netherlands) - Bop It Beats (Dutch)
(Finland) 2 - Bop It (2016) (Finnish)
2 - Bop It Extreme Game Pen (given by playing 2 Bop sounds)
2 - Bop It Extreme Keychain (2003) (given by playing 2 Bop sounds)
(Owwhhh!) 2 - Bop It Stitch (Latin American Spanish) (given by playing a fail sound, then 2 triangle wave beeps)
3 - Bop It Button (Bonus Edition) (both color variants) (2022)
(Score) 3 - Bop It BB-8 (2.0 version)
(Latin America) 3 - Bop It (2016) (Latin American Spanish)
(Spanish, Puntuación) 3 - Bop It Micro Series (European Spanish)
(Canada, Score) 3 - Bop It XT (French)
(France) 3 - Bop It Beats (French)
(Bop It Tetris! Netherlands Version) 3 - Bop It Tetris (Dutch)
(F9570, US) 3 - Bop It Optimus Prime
(Refresh Germany) 3 - Bop It (2019) (4.0, German)
3 - Bop It Download (given by playing 3 rapid beeps)
(Poland) 3 - Bop It (2016) (Polish)
(Spanish, Puntuación) 3 - Bop It Classic (2013) (European Spanish)
(Extreme, 5T) 3 - World’s Smallest Bop It Extreme
(Refresh Spain) 3 - Bop It (2019) (European Spanish)
(Denmark) 3 - Bop It (2016) (Danish)
(Portuguese, Pontuação) 3 - Bop It (2009) (Brazilian Portuguese)
4 - Bop It Extreme 2 (French)
4 - Bop It Smash (Latin American Spanish)
(Score) 4 - Bop It BB-8 (1.0 version)
(Score) 4 - Bop It Minion
(Score) 4 - Bop It: Carabiner Edition
(Score) 4 - Bop It (2019) (1.0 version)
(Score) 4 - Bop It (2019) (1.0, German)
(Bop It Tetris! French Version) 4 - Bop It Tetris (French)
(Refresh US) 4 - Bop It (2019) (3.0 & 5.0 versions)
(Refresh US) 4 - World’s Smallest Bop It (1.0 version)
(XT Second Mask) 4 - Bop It Extreme (2022)
(French) 4 - Bop It Smash (French)
(French) 4 - Bop It (2016) (French)
(German, Score) 4 - Bop It XT (German)
4 - Bop It Stitch
(Spain) 4 - Bop It (2016) (European Spanish)
(Bop It Tetris! German Version) 4 - Bop It Tetris (German)
(Sweden) 4 - Bop It (2016) (Swedish)
(Score) 5 - Bop It (2019) (2.0 version)
(Refresh US) 5 - Bop It (2019) (4.0 version)
(Refresh US) 5 - World’s Smallest Bop It (2.0 version)
(Alto Puntuación) 5 - Bop It (2009) (Latin American Spanish)
(Refresh Lat. Am.) 5 - Bop It (2019) (3.0, Latin American Spanish)
(Bop It Tetris! Mexico Version) 6 - Bop It Tetris (Latin American Spanish)
(Score) 6 - Bop It Classic (2013) (German)
6 - Bratz Bop It (given by playing 6 Bop sounds)
(Spider-Man US) 6 - Bop It Spider-Man
(Micro US) 6 - Bop It Micro Series (2.0 version)
(Micro MX) 6 - Bop It Micro Series (2.0, Latin American Spanish)
(Score) 6 - Bop It (2019) (both 1.0 and 2.0, Latin American Spanish)
(France, Score) 6 - Bop It Micro Series (French)
(Japan, Tokuten) 6 - Bop It (2009) (Japanese)
(Bop It) 6A - Bop It Baby Yoda
(Brazil) 6 - Bop It Smash (Brazilian Portuguese)
(Score) 6 - Bop It (2009) (German)
(Micro ES) 6 - Bop It Micro Series (2.0, European Spanish)
6 - Bop It XT: Carabiner Edition (Not confirmed.)
(Mexico) 7 - Bop It XT (Latin American Spanish)
(Portuguese, Pontuação) 7 - Bop It (2009) (European Portuguese)
(F8159 US) 7 - Bop It Leonardo
(Score) 7 - Bop It BB-8 (3.0 version)
(Refresh Brazil) 7 - Bop It (2019) (Brazilian Portuguese)
(Score) 8 - Bop It Blast
(Score) 8 - Bop It Chewie (1.0 version)
(French, Score) 8 - Bop It Classic (2013) (French)
(Micro US) 8 - Bop It Micro Series (3.0 version)
(Score) 9 - Bop It Groot
(Bop It) 10 - Bop It Darth Vader
(Spain) 10 - Bop It Beats (European Spanish)
(Refresh Canada) 10 - Bop It (2019) (3.0, French)
10 - Bop It (2002) (Not confirmed.)
(Score) 11 - Bop It R2-D2 (1.0 version)
(Germany) 11 - Bop It (2016) (German)
(Score) 11 - Bop It Chewie (2.0 version)
12 - Bop It Extreme 2
15 - Bop It (1997) (given by playing 15 Bop sounds)
(Score) 16 - Bop It R2-D2 (2.0 version)
(Score) 19 - Bop It (2009) (initial release)
(Score) 20 - Bop It (2009) (later releases)
(Score) 23 - Bop It Micro Series (1.0 version)
(US) 24 - Bop It Smash
(Bop It Tetris! US Version) 24 - Bop It Tetris
26 - Bop It Keychain (2000) (Not confirmed.)
(Score) 28 - Bop It XT
31 - Bop It Maker
32 - Bop It Beats
32 - Bop It Freestyle (German Bop It Maker)
32 - Bop It Maker (Latin American Spanish)
32 - Bop It Maker (European Spanish)
64 - Bop It Extreme (1999) (given by playing 6 Twist and 4 Bop sounds)
64 - Bop It Extreme Keychain (2000) (given by playing 6 Twist and 4 Bop sounds)
Did you know...?
Did you know...?
THE SHORTEST BOP IT AUDIO TEST MODE EVER IS
FROM THE BOP IT (2002) AND LASTS ONLY
8 SECONDS!
THE LONGEST BOP IT AUDIO TEST MODE EVER IS
FROM THE BOP IT DARTH VADER
AND LASTS A WHOPPING
6 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS!
You can check out the 2024 updated version of Every English Bop It Test Mode Ever where the Test Modes are played from Longest to Shortest in the video below!
Want to access the Test Modes?
Want to access the Test Modes?
There are so many versions of Bop It with so many different Test Modes for each one! Ones to test sounds, voice lines, actions, sensors, lights, positions (for those that you have to move around). Want to get into the Test Mode of your Bop It and see just how much sound is inside? Click the button below to get sent to a playlist on Katie’s YouTube channel to access the Sound Tests of Bop It games in a tutorial… in 60 seconds! These videos are also shown on Katie’s TikTok. Just remember: when you access the Test Mode, your high score will reset back to zero.
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