Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Acula
i found out that originally aeris wasn't going to die and tifa wasn't going to be in the game! (suckful!)
i also heard something that she wasn't supposed to die until sephiroth's cave or something. when you see seph was falling from the sky to kill aeris, his surroundings look more like a cave as apposed to the city. and also, there's this place in the north cave which you can't get to unless you use the Debug Room (gameshark or something) which plays Aeris' death music in it. there's a lot of those things around, but i don't wanna go on all day.
Don't know where you heard the info about Aerith being killed in North Cave, but I'm pretty sure it's not correct. With a change this drastic to the storyline, a lot of lines would have to be changed leading up to her death, and the FMV would probably have been changed. Plus, let's not forget that you're underneath the city when Aerith is killed. Heard about the Debug room, but haven't gotten around to testing it out myself, so I can't verify or falsify this one.

Edit: Even if it exists, it's probably something Square just did because they're Square. They do a lot of random stuff that doesn't really make sense.