Minecraft, awesome one man game project

[James]

A note:

Since switching to 64-bit java, the minecraft shortcut in Steam has been borked. Not only does it not show you in game, it doesn't allow the Steam Community overlay while playing. Apparently this is a known issue without a very clear fix. 32-bit java doesn't cause an issue, but 64-bit somehow screws up the handoff from the minecraft.exe.

Anyway, long story short, if you actually want to show up as playing minecraft, try this:

1. Add minecraft as normal.
2. Go into the properties screen
3. In the target box, mod it to look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe" -Xmx4096M -Xms512M -cp D:\James\Downloads\Minecraft.exe net.minecraft.LauncherFrame

4. Weep at the kludge you just had to do.

Ultimately this makes Steam think you are still in-game after the handoff from the .exe to the .jar.

Personal preference if it is worth it or not, but I got tired of it being broken and went to find a fix.