Boxart images smaller than ~900 bytes don't appear

I’m using Lakka nightly devel-20161221183631-r21729-g274b40f (installed via) lakka-update System is an X86_64

I installed boxart from “Online Updater > Thumbnails Updater” from the RetroArch main navigation. I configured RetroArch to display “Snaps” (vs boxart or titles).

My playlists properly display most snaps. However, some snaps with seemingly valid names do not appear.

Using Atari 2600 as an example (with valid No-Intro roms that properly scan for playlist generation)…

From my Atari - 2600.lpl /storage/roms/NO_INTO/Atari/ATARI_2600/3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (USA).zip#3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (USA).a26 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (USA) /tmp/cores/stella_libretro.so Atari 2600 (Stella) 58805709|crc Atari - 2600.lpl

The rom scanner properly identifies the rom as 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (USA)

ls -l /storage/thumbnails/Atari - 2600/Named_Snaps/3-D*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           302 Feb 14 23:00 /storage/thumbnails/Atari - 2600/Named_Snaps/3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (USA).png

An image does exist that matches the rom name (as it is known to the rom scanner and as it appears in the playlist). However, it is only 302 bytes in size.

From a somewhat cursory examination of other images similarly “missing” when viewing the Atari 2600 playlist, it seems that that only images with file sizes larger than ~900 bytes are displayed. Of course, I may simply be seeing correlation when there is some other actual cause of the omissions.

I’ve noticed similar “missing” images in FBA Arcade roms as well (when there is indeed a properly-name image file in the appropriate ~/thumbnails/ subdirectory. This phenemenom is not limited to the Atari 2600 playlist.

Anyone have any ideas?

I have exactly same problem. Especially for old machines such as msx1,2 which have small size of snap, title or boxart image files because of low resolution image, it has high possibility to be missing. The only method I can find is to replace such a small size of the images files with large size of high quality images. Is there any better method to try?

i did workaround this issue by compressing the images in a less efficient manner

You can grab the most current packs for

ATARI

https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Atari_-_2600/archive/master.zip

https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Atari_-_5200/archive/master.zip

MSX https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Microsoft_-_MSX/archive/master.zip

https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/Microsoft_-_MSX2/archive/master.zip

I would aprecciate feedback on this issue

Is this still an issue? Is it a problem with the ImgBot’s compression?