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The robots in megaman classic do have self-awareness and emotions, but what separates them from Reploids is the fact that they cannot act upon what they perceive and feel unless programmed to. Wily has to modify them into acting erratically and dangerously.
As for Rock in MM7, it could be that years of experience saving people and making choices, as well as continuous upgrades from Dr. Light eventually resulted in Rock developing a primitive form of agency that ALMOST emerged when he was about to shoot Wily (regardless of localization text because it sure looked like he was about to blast the old man's face right off). Light noticed this and thus began working on X. Is it canon? No, but it makes sense. Even our current-year primitive AI experiments eventually develops its own ideas that skirt the limits of what it's allowed to do, it's not far fetched.