I don't remember there being a game before the PSP version, so...my bad. Having said that, 2000-2001 was my last year in college (18 credit hours per semester, all upper level classes), and I had just gotten married, and my wife was expecting, so I probably had other things on my mind.
In fact, after I beat Chrono Cross, the next RPG I was able to play through was Kingdom Hearts, and I got that right before KH II came out. So RPG's from 2000-2005 are kind of a blur for me.