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v1.4.004 - Two new languages

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Two new languages

The whole game speaks Português (Brasil) and Español now — menus, tutorials, the register, the Codex, and every line a customer says.

Switch it in Settings > Display > Language. It changes instantly, no restart, and it remembers your pick.
Anything not translated yet falls back to English, so you never see a blank or a raw code.
A few button names (INVENTORY, CODEX, ACCEPT) stay English on purpose — those buttons are not localized yet, so the instructions match what is actually on your screen.

This was the most requested thing on the streams. If a line reads badly in your language, say so in the discussions. It is one file, and I can fix it the same day.

Fair warning: this is a first pass, and it will read like one in places. I translated it myself rather than paying a localization studio, so expect some stiff phrasing, a line or two that overflows its box, and the odd word a native speaker would have chosen differently. Nothing is locked in — the whole thing is one file, and I will keep polishing it build over build. Telling me which line reads wrong is genuinely the fastest way to get it fixed.

The loading freeze

The long hang before the store appears is gone. Loading a save used to stock every shelf in a single frame; that work is spread across frames now, and so is putting your furniture back.
The main menu was also warming up rendering work the game never actually draws. It does not any more.
On a slower drive you may still catch one short hitch as the street outside loads. That one is known, and it is next.

From the last streams

Appraising a trade-in now freezes that customer's patience. Two playtesters lost a trade because the timer kept ticking while they were inside the inspection.
When you are stuck on a change screen, the exact-change shortcut is now a banner instead of small text on the register LCD.
The vacuum is audible from a sane distance instead of across the entire store.
Closing time now tells you the doors are locked and the people already inside will finish shopping, instead of looking like the day has stalled.

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