diff --git a/recompiler/src/code_generator.cpp b/recompiler/src/code_generator.cpp
index 9e280940..2ed69e2f 100644
--- a/recompiler/src/code_generator.cpp
+++ b/recompiler/src/code_generator.cpp
@@ -839,8 +839,9 @@ std::string CodeGenerator::generate_branch_condition(uint32_t instr, uint32_t ad
     check_explicit_branch_site(addr, instr);
     if (config_.ws_cull_nclip_exact_sites.count(addr) &&
         (opcode == 0x06 || opcode == 0x07 ||
-         (opcode == 0x01 && ((instr >> 16) & 31) == 1))) {
-        const char* compare = opcode == 0x06 ? "<= 0" : opcode == 0x07 ? "> 0" : ">= 0";
+         (opcode == 0x01 && ((instr >> 16) & 31) <= 1))) {
+        const char* compare = opcode == 0x06 ? "<= 0" : opcode == 0x07 ? "> 0" :
+            ((instr >> 16) & 1) ? ">= 0" : "< 0";
         return fmt::format("psx_ws_nclip_branch(0x{:08X}u, 0x{:08X}u, (int32_t){}, ((int32_t){} {})) /* guarded wide nclip */",
                            addr, instr, reg_name(rs), reg_name(rs), compare);
     }
diff --git a/recompiler/tests/ws_cull_edge_codegen_test.cpp b/recompiler/tests/ws_cull_edge_codegen_test.cpp
index c0655eec..9438ed00 100644
--- a/recompiler/tests/ws_cull_edge_codegen_test.cpp
+++ b/recompiler/tests/ws_cull_edge_codegen_test.cpp
@@ -415,6 +415,20 @@ reject_mask = "0xFFFF0000"
           "overlay with another instruction stays vanilla");
 }
 
+void guarded_nclip_branches() {
+    PSXRecomp::CodeGenConfig config{};
+    config.ws_cull_nclip_exact_sites.insert(kBase);
+    const auto left = generate_first_instruction(kBltzV0, config).full_code;
+    const auto right = generate_first_instruction(kBgezV0, config).full_code;
+    check(left.find("psx_ws_nclip_branch(") != std::string::npos &&
+              left.find("gte_nclip_exact_sign(") == std::string::npos &&
+              left.find("cpu->gpr[2] < 0") != std::string::npos,
+          "BLTZ uses the word-guarded handedness consumer and vanilla fallback");
+    check(right.find("psx_ws_nclip_branch(") != std::string::npos &&
+              right.find("cpu->gpr[2] >= 0") != std::string::npos,
+          "BGEZ uses the same word-guarded handedness consumer");
+}
+
 void runtime_math() {
     // Identity at 4:3 (margin 0) for every input.
     for (int32_t v : {-1000, -54, -53, -1, 0, 1, 98, 222, 319, 320, 321, 1000}) {
@@ -460,6 +474,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
     shared_decls_include_new_helpers();
     runtime_math();
     masked_reject_sites();
+    guarded_nclip_branches();
 
     if (g_exit_probe >= 0) return 3;  // no call had that probe index
     if (failures != 0) {