You've actually increased the default number of laps on the Advanced stages there. Although 4 is the normal amount in the regular Model 2 version, it normally defaults to 3 laps in Championship USA (and just 1 on the Expert stages).
Also, wow, had no idea you could run this on Steam Deck. Impressive.
*looks up a quick YouTube video*
Oh darn, you're right, the increase is just so small I was sure it had not changed. Uhh, wow thats short. I mean obviously fine for a typical arcade setup but I obviously was looking for longer races for those long days of Dayton USA on a train or an airplane.
And ha ha, yup. Runs on Steam Deck. Had to bring down the shadow ammount a looot to like 512? Though the Daytona Speedway track down the straighaway has so many objects on screen the FPS drops to around 55. Other than resolution and dynamic shadow resolution, would love to hear any other suggestions to bring up performance/reduce processor load. I really wish the Daytona USA port that came to Xbox 360 and PS3 had also come to Steam, a native PC port would be low power and amazing. You can emulate a 360 but oof, that's demanding on a battery operated device. Also been experimenting with emulating the Dreamcast port, since it has a lot of extras, can be emulated reasonably low powered enough, patched for widescreen, and has handy console things like a
pause button. I found that the ability to carefully adjust the input curve on the Steam Deck's analog stick input gives you a level of tweaking that makes the Dreamcast port more playable.
Somewhat related: Outrun 2006 C2C PC port runs like butter on the Steam Deck.