diff --git a/runtime/src/interrupts.c b/runtime/src/interrupts.c
index 9825b456..4a4e03c8 100644
--- a/runtime/src/interrupts.c
+++ b/runtime/src/interrupts.c
@@ -1844,7 +1844,18 @@ irq_deliver_eval:
         same_thread_resume = 1;
         {
             extern int psx_scheduler_top_level_resume_active(void);
-            if (psx_scheduler_top_level_resume_active()) {
+            /* pc=0 means "the interrupted native frame is still on the host
+             * stack below us — return and it continues". That contract also
+             * breaks whenever dispatch has already collapsed to TOP LEVEL
+             * (depth 0): statically-baked overlay functions cross into AOT
+             * text via CPS returns, so the interrupted chain may hold no
+             * host frames at all, and a published 0 reaches the main loop
+             * as a bogus GUEST_EXIT (WipEout 3 ntsc120full8 static bake:
+             * deterministic "execution completed, PC=0" ~10 s into boot,
+             * ra=0x800D7FC0 epc=0x8015FAEC). Same remedy as the scheduler
+             * case: prefer the compiled interrupt resume PC. */
+            if (psx_scheduler_top_level_resume_active() ||
+                g_psx_dispatch_depth <= 0) {
                 uint32_t resume = s_compiled_interrupt_resume_pc;
                 if (resume == 0u)
                     resume = s_last_interrupt_check_pc;
diff --git a/runtime/src/main.cpp b/runtime/src/main.cpp
index 64b517bf..436295e4 100644
--- a/runtime/src/main.cpp
+++ b/runtime/src/main.cpp
@@ -14380,6 +14380,20 @@ session_reboot:
     }
 
     std::fprintf(stdout, "psxrecomp runtime: execution completed, PC=0x%08X\n", cpu.pc);
+    /* The PC=0 top-level exit is an abnormal-boot class (see interrupts.c:
+     * approximate exception-resume PCs severing the live native chain). The
+     * registers at exit name the culprit without needing a debug-tools build:
+     * ra = who returned/jumped here, epc = the last exception context. */
+    {
+        extern uint32_t g_debug_current_func_addr, g_debug_last_store_pc;
+        std::fprintf(stdout,
+                     "psxrecomp runtime: [exit regs] ra=0x%08X sp=0x%08X "
+                     "epc=0x%08X sr=0x%08X func=0x%08X last_store_pc=0x%08X "
+                     "v0=0x%08X a0=0x%08X t9=0x%08X\n",
+                     cpu.gpr[31], cpu.gpr[29], cpu.cop0[14], cpu.cop0[12],
+                     g_debug_current_func_addr, g_debug_last_store_pc,
+                     cpu.gpr[2], cpu.gpr[4], cpu.gpr[25]);
+    }
     { extern uint64_t g_slice_fired, g_slice_irq_taken, g_dirty_ram_insns_run;
       extern uint32_t g_slice_exit_pc, g_slice_exit_reason, g_slice_exit_iter;
       extern uint32_t g_slice_exit_dispatchable, g_slice_exit_dirty, g_slice_exit_in_text, g_slice_exit_want;