This was also a problem with the Playstation controller. The controller has ○ and × buttons, and in Japan "×" can mean no/incorrect and "○" can mean yes/correc

This was also a problem with the Playstation controller. The controller has ○ and × buttons, and in Japan "×" can mean no/incorrect and "○" can mean yes/correct, so in the menus you press ○ to confirm and × to deny. When they localized it for the west, they flipped the meaning so that × means yes as in "check the box" and ○ means no as in "zero" (like on a power switch with 1 and 0) So when you play games from another region, what controls you use in menus changes.