Got this today, here are two screenshots when unlocking the trophy:
For those trophy hunters who are still looking for a way to unlock this trophy, my theory in previous post has been confirmed to be correct by both me and the latest achiever (sheep_no6).
Hence the only procedure is as below: 1. look up players on the trophy tracking website like PSNP, PSTL who have played this game and registered their last trophy for this game early enough. (Both sheep_no6 and me only looked up and added players before April 2012, that would be the best bet) Just ignore players with 0% trophys, start from low trophy completion to high. i.e.: go to Little Deviants trophy list, hit 'Leaderboard' button near '100% Club', search from last page to first. There you can see all players' info with the time of their latest registered trophy. e.g.: http://psnprofiles.com/game-leaderboard/1298-Little-Deviants?c=&p=460 2. start sending FRs to those people; 3. once people approve your FR, sometimes they will immediately show up on leaderboards. Some will show up after a couple of hours of becoming friends with you. Some will never show up, possible reasons are: a. the players have played the game himself and updated his online score after server's shutdown; b. the player has been challenged by someone after the server's shutdown and his score has been updated by beating the challenge. 4. once you see those players on leaderboards, if they have both vita and the game and willing to help then you are in perfect situation and the trophy will be yours. Most of time though, as this is an old game and Vita is almost dead nowadays (sad to say so, it's my personal fav handheld console), players will lack of either Vita or the game. You have to figure out a way to solve this! For those who don't have Vita and game, you might ask him to borrow a vita and you can gift him a game card or give him a top-up prepaid card for them to buy the game in PS Store. Or if you are good enough you can try to ask them to borrow their accounts to you if you are in same region(EU or US) (Please do understand, this is against Sony's Terms and Conditions according to some PSN users. Sorry I barely read those so I cannot confirm it. I do not encourage anyone to use this last method, I only provide you a possible solution to overcome the glitch. Use at your own risk, though the risk is basically 0.....)
that's basically how I did mine today.
In summary, it took me 2 days to look up players and add them. Over 100 FRs have been sent, only less than 20 have been approved within 2 days. From those 20, I manage to see more than 10 people showing up on leaderboards in different games. Trust me, if you are in this step, you will feel the awesomeness! Then from those 10 people I asked all of them to do me a favor and explained the situation in details. Apart from 1-2 players said they don't have vita any more, only about 4 replied me and were happy to help. One of them doesn't have Vita and game with him at the moment but will if we wait until August he can help me to do so; one of them doesn't have the game any more so I had to consider to gift him a game; 2 of them are happy to help and they both have the game and vita. I successfully grabbed the chance and unlocked the trophy with @AshesFallDown706, leaving another mate for other trophy hunters to find him. (sorry I cannot give anyone his PSN ID) After I sent the challenge with a beatable score to him, as I read in @NaganoJPN's post, i told him accept the challenge with the game is closed, also beat the challenge with a newer score slight higher not too much. He did so and resent me challenge back. With my game was closed I went to Message app - Game notification and accept the challenge there. By doing so the game will automatically launch and go directly into the challenge after opening animation. After I beat his challenge, I successfully unlocked the trophy. And as expected, due to his new score he's disappear from leaderboards!!! P.S.: I actually had already bought an 20 USD and 10 GBP prepaid cards just in case I needed someone to buy the game digitally, cost 13.5 USD in US and 7 GBP in UK PSS. Turned out I didn't even give the prepaid cards out as someone who has the game and vita helped me to get the trophy. OK let me just top-up my own accounts. lol. Gamers are awesome!
So guys please forget about the theory of leaving the game for 2 weeks or 2 months and then launch and hope to see someone. If the player cannot be seen at the moment, he can never be seen in the future! Also each player can only be seen once and he has to play the game before the shutdown of server. Each players on leaderboard can only be challenged once by one player! No matter how many mini-games' leaderboards you can see him on, once he beat your challenge once, his profile will be updated and be removed from server! So there's no point of adding the players who have already played/helped other players.
if you really want this trophy, go do the steps I suggested. I had to say it's a very job: lots of asking and explanation and typing, etc. However once you receive the trophy, you would feel that worth it!!! I wish you all best of luck and have a nice hunting!!! (OK, now I still have 100+ FRs need to be cancelled, lol)