diff --git a/src/game/initunk_005450.c b/src/game/initunk_005450.c
index 197a358e..47600d39 100644
--- a/src/game/initunk_005450.c
+++ b/src/game/initunk_005450.c
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@
 #include "bondtypes.h"
 #include "initunk_005450.h"
 
-#define MODELHITENTRIES_LEN 600
-
 extern struct ModelHitEntry *g_ModelHitFreeList; // canonically freedist
 
 /**
  * These are linker/BSS labels. g_ModelHitEntries is the start of a
- * ModelHitEntry[600] pool. g_ModelHitEntriesPenultimate labels entry 598
+ * ModelHitEntry[MODELHITENTRIES_LEN] pool. g_ModelHitEntriesPenultimate labels entry 598
  * inside that same pool and is kept as a raw char symbol so IDO emits the
  * original relocation.
  */
diff --git a/src/game/initunk_005450.h b/src/game/initunk_005450.h
index d2648633..398f689a 100644
--- a/src/game/initunk_005450.h
+++ b/src/game/initunk_005450.h
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 #define _INITUNK_005450_H_
 #include <ultra64.h>
 
+/* Hit-test/draw-order entries shared by every model drawn in a frame (each
+ * chr takes one per drawable node, ~20-30). PC: room for many more drawn
+ * chrs, e.g. bodies kept by Game.MaxCorpses; exhausting the pool left later
+ * chrs without entries and crashed the next shot test. */
+#if defined(PLATFORM_64BIT)
+#define MODELHITENTRIES_LEN 8192
+#else
+#define MODELHITENTRIES_LEN 600
+#endif
+
 void initModelHitEntryFreeList(void);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/src/game/objecthandler.c b/src/game/objecthandler.c
index 03098e1f..c8ad17d7 100644
--- a/src/game/objecthandler.c
+++ b/src/game/objecthandler.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include <ultra64.h>
 #include <memp.h>
 #include "objecthandler.h"
+#include "initunk_005450.h"
 #include "model.h"
 
 // bss
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@
 // writes 600*40 bytes from g_ModelHitEntries and overruns the N64-sized placeholders
 // by 12KB into adjacent .bss globals. Size the pool for the real struct on PC; keep
 // the original placeholder chain verbatim on N64.
-char g_ModelHitEntries[600 * sizeof(ModelHitEntry)];
+char g_ModelHitEntries[MODELHITENTRIES_LEN * sizeof(ModelHitEntry)];
 #else
 //CODE.bss:80076A50
 char g_ModelHitEntries[0xC];
@@ -1269,6 +1270,16 @@ s32 sub_GAME_7F06C010(ModelHitEntry **entryptr, coord3d *modelRayStart, coord3d
 {
     ModelHitEntry *entry = *entryptr;
 
+#ifdef PORT
+    /* No entries (the shared pool ran out while drawing): nothing to hit */
+    if (entry == NULL)
+    {
+        *outModel = NULL;
+        *outNode = NULL;
+        return 0;
+    }
+#endif
+
     while (entry->next != NULL) 
     {
         entry = entry->next;