Actually, there are even two independent C128(-like) cores at once in development for the MiSTer platform. The first one is this (which is the same as mentioned above):
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While the other is an extended SuperCPU128-like (thus quite a MEGA65-inspired one) being developed by the same person who is also porting the MEGA65 core to MiSTer:
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