Topic: Can a HDMI cable affect the visual quality of VC games?

I was playing the Yoshi's Island for GBA in an 50 ' HDTV the other day and it looked way too pixeleated even with the filters, I was using the HDMI cable that Nintendo provides with the Wii U. However I had to travel to other location and I forget my Nintendo HDMI cable there, thus I've purchased another one in a local shop.

Then I've played again Yoshi's Island in the very same 50 ' HDTV back home and the game looked quite fine to play, none of the horrible pixels I've seen before showed up when using the smoothing filters, it still looked better to play on gamepad but in the HDTV the gba graphics looked quite fine.

Am I having allucinations or the change of the HDMI cable can actually affect that much the visual quality of older GBA titles in VC? SNES titles still look pixeleated on the 50' HDTV but at leat Yoshi's Island GBA looked good on the screen.

Technically, no. For the most part, all HDMI cables are the same in that if you're getting a picture, you're getting the best quality it can offer. Of course, there are cases where the HDMI cable is bad and cause some issues, like mixing white specks into the picture.

It's impossible since these are digital cables, not analog.

They essentially either work, or don't work, with nothing in-between. If you have a bad HDMI cable, you'll most likely just not get a picture. And on the off chance that you do sometimes see something, you will get heavy pixelation, stuttering, freezes, audio dropouts, etc. A bad HDMI cable simply just doesn't work.

The only reason not to buy the cheapest HDMI cable you can find, is if you plan to be moving it around. Then, the quality of construction can make it stand up better to repeatedly being disconnected and reconnected, twisted, and so on. And even then, we're only talking perhaps spending $20, instead of $5.

HDMI cable prices upwards to $100 or more, are just preying on the ignorant.

The new HDMI cable I've got was one from a range prices of $ 5 to 7 (depending of the exchange rate) ... either way probably the other cable was damaged or something

HD = just an high resolution that is 1000 x 2000 ( somewhere their ) around that much and is considered to be called "HD" quality. Truth real HD quality is around 10,000 x 20,000 pixels and so far no computer setup is able to do that amount even with the natural printer setting of DPI/PPI.

Because many later GBA games used photoshopped images, or even photographs for it's artwork when turned up to an high resolution the image will appear distorted. The same effect could be seen with the usage of low-pixels which will create an distorted view.

Meaning games that are not made with pixels alone, or for the nature of pixels will appear distorted on an huge high-resolution ( HD ) display. This is why computer games from the dos era looks remarkable on HD displays including some early 3d games. However games that uses photographs and images do not look so clean or hot at all.

Games made out of images will look terrible next to games made out of pixels. My advice would be to play the SNES version of Yoshi island because chance the GBA game will be a smaller pixel sizes.

Digital is digital is digital. Your signal is either there or not. There's no such thing as a poor quality HDMI cable. Analog cables need to be made well due to interference. HDMI is a great technology because there's no real fault along the line.

It's more likely your TV just happened to change some settings when switching cables.