Supposedly, this game was made before NGBC, and for the same team than 98UM, so yeah, I think that this doesn't have anything to do with XIII
The thing that makes you hard to take seriously SNKP is the fact is that after all the friggin delays they didn't tried to make any change to give us a better polished product, like the new netcode, add color edit and the gallery, and other silly stuff like that, even they could have tried to gave us HD stages like NGBC, game which also has color edit and galleries, there was a helluva of a diference between both games