How did the hardware know the software was foreign?
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Economic conditions were (and sometimes still are) a lot different in the US and Russia and Hing Kong in 1995, so game prices could be dramatically different across regions.
They didn’t want people taking advantage of currency exchange rates to buy Russian copies of games for $4 and exporting them to the US, so hardware tended to be region specific.
Sometimes the actual cartridge slot and/or pin configuration was different, and sometimes it was just a number stored in the software somewhere. I remember tales of people cutting chunks of plastic off of Japanese cartridges so they’d fit in a US console.
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