Thank you so much for the encouragement guys!

Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
But the first thing i would do is check thingiverse
That's a great find. While it might end up being easier to dismantle the DS than to design something in Blender, I'm still pretty scared to go dismantling things because I could just break it even more. Also upon close inspection I can see that the most likely cause of the broken hinge is actually some plastic missing from the top screen component, unfortunately. The little display holders are probably fine.