Hah thanks for the suggestion necro, and more so the warning - sorry for your loss. Maybe it would be worth applying that same technique to the power switch? It's just to prevent the chip from sliding out while power is on right? Like the slot on gameboy games that allowed the power button to slightly overlap it?
Seems like 3D printed power switches would be a low cost and rudimentary production?
Edit: I suppose it could also have been for copy protection, my point is the plastic part of the switch that sits over the sd card would not be needed for the games to run right?