There are several neat gimmicks in that game but the levels designed around them were...poor. Also, why use virtual console? Just get SNES9x, that's a new3DS so it should run better. That, and you have more than one savestate, turbo buttons, cheats, etc.
...Something just occured to me. I've never played the hack myself, but I know of a LOT of hacks that only work on ZSNES, which is not console-accurate. Things that work on ZSNES won't always work on other emulators, be it snes9x or higan (ESPECIALLY higan). I'd have to check though, but that's my guess.