Disc replay

So I found my action replay complete with AR card. I don't need it. I have read over the years that earlier versions of AR for GameCube are more desirable and worth a bit more.
Can anyone tell me how much this one is worth? How can you tell without putting it inside GC?

It's finally my day off and have no other canvas to spill my musings on, so for those of you who have played through any of these games more times than you can count (starting from at least DMC4), feel welcome to read on and reminisce or share your own story / journey / introduction to this series.
2002: A magazine I purchased came with a PS2 demo disc, featuring a trailer of the first game. Now, titles like MSG2, FFX, GTA3 (and whatever else was popular at the time) were already captivating in their own right, especially for a kid who upgraded from a "blocky" PS1 graphics to the jaw-dropping sleek and smooth graphical wizardry of the PS2.
It was this demo disc which contained a trailer for a game which had a weird, yet intriguing title. Let me tell you, the moment Dante launched a fiend with his sword and kept it nailed in mid air with bullets was a brief red-pilled, jaw dropping moment where everything else I have ever played to date seemed vanilla as fuck in comparison and would end up rewatching it countless times as well as showing it off occasionally to friends.
Problem is, I was also living in a bit of a jesus-freak household and therefore buying / renting the game was an impossibility especially one with the word Devil in the title, so I was stuck with this demo disc and sort of forgot about it over time and moved onto other games.
2006-7: The first time I bought a console (X360) with my very first paycheck as a gift to my brother and of all the games he decides to purchase day one, is DMC4 - ironic as he's still a sucker for western AAA titles and sees nothing special about DMC5 (he finds it too "arcadey").
Let's just say that the Xbox I gifted him was no longer his, as I would continuously pull it out of his room and into mine to feed my insufferable desire to play the crap out of this very addictive and cathartic game. I was instantly obsessed and happy that I finally had a DMC game.
One day, his friends (who I barely interacted with) are over and decide to watch whatever it is I'm playing. Friend #1 (familiar with DMC3) wouldn't stop raving about Vergil and friend #2 becomes fixated for a while, muttering something to the effect of 'I dont know whats going on here but this looks amazing' as I'm dishing out combos, with the incentivized pressure to hit that SSS as they stare.
They eventually become closer friends (thanks Itsuno), the DMC cast kind of became the imaginary friends of our autistic circle and this period of life is marked as a golden, blissful wistful part of the nostalgic depths of my soul.
2010: 'That' trailer drops and my gut sinks. This is it, no more sequel. It's beyond dead. Other priorities have taken over my friends lives, life has changed them and nothing's the same anymore, so no one to vent with. Screw this period.
RIP.
2013: The demo for DmC has just become available. I download it hesitantly but try my very best to keep an open mind. Trying to finish it felt like a slog and the nauseatingly uncanny movements (in comparison to the sharp, snappy, responsive mechanics I was used to) just didn't feel right, and the award-winning shakespearean dialogue exchanged in that boss fight as well as the general tone of the game was about as cool as 2 rats fucking in a sock in the corner of a sauna. Once it was over, I felt like a cheap whore and uninstalling it immediately didn't help wash the stain for a while. Great level design though now that I look back at it. *Fires up DMC4 bloody palace again*
2017: The DMC5 leak on ResetEra just happens to drop only days after buying a PS4 to play through the series for old times sake. My imagination runs wild for months and so does my motivation to stay alive.
2018: 10 years have passed yet it has felt like a lifetime. The first trailer drops online and it's real. I see short, white hair and for a few moments start to feel betrayal and dread. Then Nero pulls out that iconic sword, revs it and at that moment, every single feeling of wonder and excitement I've ever experienced for anything as a child, becomes condensed into a single point and explodes with childish joy. This sub was at around 8000 members more or less and was the most active I've ever seen it, never would've imagined it being 159k.
I immediately contact my old friends (who I haven't talked to since 08) asking if they've seen the trailer. Then more trailers drop and I finally understood what it felt like to be a kid all over again, as if coming full circle to the moment I first saw the DMC1 trailer on the demo disc - but amplified to the power of 9001. My depression is cured, wage slavery is now tolerable for another year and for the first time ever, I begin to feel intense pity for those who will never understand how it feels to be this excited about anything.
2019: The final trailer drops, Vergil appears at the end and my insomnia has gone into overdrive. The game is a week away and I have to make sure no final destination shit gets in between me and that disc, for I wont die happy unless I see how this story plays out. This was my first day 1 purchase of any game and upon arriving at a nearly empty store, it were as if the chariots of weebness descended from Capcom's top floor and cleared the path with an ethereal spotlight for this weird, eccentric manchild to be first in line for this blue balled masterpiece.
One of the things I wanted to see most (and fantasized about for years) was Nero interacting with his father, and (as a hardcore fan evidently) delivered with one of the most powerfully emotional scenes I've ever seen in a video game, one that I wish I could relive over and over for the first time.
And so upon completion, time was no longer at a standstill and was returned to my adult, tax-paying form as the credits rolled, well, a very lucky one that lived to see the end of a story I was convinced I'd never get to see more of in this lifetime. Getting the breaker gloves at the end of game reminded me of this scene from Dexter's Lab, as if we weren't spoiled with enough replayability value.
Sadly, I have never heard back from one of my friends and the other already has children with no inclination for video games. *We shall never surrender ballad plays softly over as I reminisce the days*.
So, if I am ever administered to a nursing home (or mental hospital if you will), I hope they'll have a playstation, a copy of this game, and one of you fanboys with me to pester.
Thanks for coming to my therapy session.
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I haven’t played my PS4 in over half a year but recently got the urge to replay Spider-Man 2018 after being wowed by Across the Spider-Verse. Anyway I pop the disc in, the game starts installing again since I haven’t played this thing since like 2018. But back then, I distinctly remember being able to play the game as it was being installed. Now, I think I actually have to wait until it’s done installing. Is this a PS4 issue or is it because I recently connected an external hard drive to it to increase the space?