It turns out they didn't after all.
There never was a software fix by Nintendo.
It was not. I simply fuzzed a particular register.
It doesn't fix them because the register definitions changed.
It is being looked into, but things are looking dire.
Dolphin doesn't emulate SD cards in SPI mode, so it's impossible to test with it.
The following paths can exist with libogc:
carda:/ - for an SD Card Adapter in Memory Slot A
cardb:/ - for an SD Card Adapter in Memory Slot B
sd:/ - for an SD...
hahahaha I'm half way through a bag off my Volcano and my tolerance is way down because I haven't been smoking much lately, so I was a little slow to catch that that was what your angle was