Harvest moon 64 horse stamina cheat isn't working

[jpears15]

I'm using project 64 for my harvest moon 64 rom and I've made it to the first fall in the game. I activated the cheat the day before and most of the game before that and it should allow me to have unlimited stamina for my horse for the races but when the race begins, all stamina is drained as if the cheat wasn't on. The code is built into the emulator and i've tried several other ones i've found around the net but no luck. Every other code works fine but this one refuses.

any idea to what the issue may be? :/

[Jakethegreat12]

PJ64 uses gameshark codes right? harvest moon 64 is the only harvest moon game ive never played so im not sure what it could be. have you tried turning on the code whenever the race starts? there should be a small box below the cheat saying how to use it if i remember correctly..

[jpears15]

ive tried during and before the race but never seem to work, most cheats on project64 are so self explanatory that they don't usually put any specific detail unless it's a complicated cheat or a really popular one with lots of glitches and issues kind've like the teleporting one in zelda:majora's mask, where you repeatedly enter the same area until you turn it off

I'd hope that the code wouldn't be time specific, but there is a possibility that it isn't possible to win the race the first year just because the amount of work that it'd take in actual gameplay to accomplish would be insane, but that shouldn't be the issue, I've tried it on later versions of pj64 and the newest version with little luck

the only other issue i can think it could be is that you have to have it on when you start the game...hmmm ill fiddle with it some more

if anyone has any ideas feel free to shoot me your thoughts