Achievements mode glitch

Description

Playing PSO v2 for Dreamcast, I was experimenting with cheats. I wanted to activate Christmas or Sonic mode (events) which I used on PSOv1 back in the day, but I heard PSOv2 does not allow cheats, except Codebreaker on JP versions. I set up the cheats, but they did not work, proving the "no cheats" was correct.

I disabled cheats, even hit save cheats. I then went to enable hardcore mode, at which time Retroarch restarted. It acted as it should be Hardcore mode, as that's the same force restart. This did not award Achievements to hardcore mode, eventually me realizing it was giving them still as Softcore, even after the reset.

The emulator on next start of the game, STILL loaded up cheats, even after I selected "delete all cheats". This was for several times playing, me being confused at WHY I wasn't getting Achievement Points: But I figured it out after several times of "Enable Hardcore Mode" and restarting the Emulator: Retroarch was still booting cheats I selected to delete in the app, and didn't properly activate Hardcore when prompted.

I had to delete all cheats from the directory to fix this, and now have to require manual unlocks for a couple days of achievements I'm concerned may not be granted: One of those is getting to a certain level on a class that took 20 hours

The glitches for this seem two-fold: It didn't boot in hardcore mode even when prompted to resume it, and that it kept trying to load cheats or didn't delete all cheats when prompted and saved.

• RetroArch version 1.15.0
• OS: Win10

Start by reproducing the report on RetroArch 1.15.0 with PSO v2 for Dreamcast on Windows 10. Investigate the cheat deletion/reloading behavior and the hardcore-mode state after restart; done means deleted cheats no longer load and achievements remain in hardcore mode after the restart.