You can always hope for a patch.
And besides, I guess they didn't want to be exactly like KOF... though they even screwed that up, since KOF 12 had two-button throws =P
I didn't know that video was old. I figured Tencent wouldn't give a shit about copyright, especially since they are making a KOF ripoff game. But it seems to me SNK doesn't care either... and that's just sad.