going to buy the maxi c64 fpga thing / also thinking if getting the mister fpga kit

Man I wouldn't bother with fpga stuff for what ultimately will amount to an emulator box, just stick an old PC powerful enough to run all the games you want off MAME and use an HDMI> analog video converter. Then you can hook up the controls to a standard x input or d input board.

its not at all an emulator, if you think a pc emulating this stuff in software is the same as a piece of hardware that can be reconfigured, you don't understand what an fpga is