Yup. Played from US beta for regularly up until around 2009ish. Then was on again off again for a long time. Started on Midgardsormr then went to Hades.
I think my fasted Mega Man 9 time was 47 minutes or something? I forget. Last time I looked, I was still in the top 100 on the leaderboards. I never timed my MM2, but my last MM1 play through was around 40 minutes.
Haha I forgot about the first time bonuses.
As for being a space spy, you can probably find my long abandoned eve pilot, Kurai Breau, in some space bar remembering the 2 months he bothered to train any skills and fly across maybe 3 jumps. Game did not resonate with me