Well, I'll cite part of whatsnew.txt from 0.176 that reads:
Code:
New NOT_WORKING software list additions --------------------------------------- gamate.xml: Volcano Panic [Juan Felix Mateos and Mr. Postman] gamate.xml: Hot Hero; Baseball [Peter Wilhelmsen] gba_ereader.xml: Starting work doing the GBA e-reader software-list [Shideravan]
So yes, they will probably convert bar codes to binary data and the image part will never be preserved just like no-intro.