Hidden/Removed Scene (Cloud the Clone)

I found this Hidden/Removed scene about 5 months ago using a GameShark code but for some reason I never did upload it. GarlandG insisted on that I should though, so here it is.

After this scene you are brought to the Highwind as Cloud and if you enter the conference room you trigger the scene where Cloud explains to the party what he learned in the Lifestream with Tifa.
Judging by the above, what they are talking about in the scene itself, and the fact that neither Cloud nor Tifa seems to be present makes it seem like this scene was originally meant to play during, or just after, Cloud and Tifa's scenes in the Lifestream.
I'm somewhat puzzled as to why it didn't make it to the final version of the game seeing how it really does shed some light on all the confusion surrounding what they really meant by a "clone". My only good guess would be that the one box with no text in it really did lose its text at some late stage which thus unfortunately rendered the whole scene useless.

Executed on the Final Fantasy VII [NTSC] (US) PSX version, background music added by yours truly. Enjoy :)

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• removed
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• cloud
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• highwind

[Khrene]

@radationgranade where did you get the idea that Zack never existed?

Not only does Crises Core disprove that, in the game Aeris says she dated a SOLDIER before, then in that little town where you get the Titan Summon materia, you see an old couple and they ask Cloud if they have heard of a young man named Zack, that he went to midgar to be a SOLDIER and that he he was dating a flower girl named Aeris.

Don't know what happens if you talk to them with Aeris alive. she was dead when i went.

[Taakuyaa]

@CherryRiniaz It wasnt left in the air. If you put the pieces together you get the whole story during the course of the game. You just have to, ya know, analyze it properly as you go.

[THElastOFtheMEXICANS]

cloud isnt trying to be zack and he didnt form zacks memories into his on purpose clouds mind was messed up by evrything tht was going on and his mind was stilll recovering from mako poisoning soo he had noooo idea wtf was going on and who was who and what was what soo yh his mind was fucked up at tht time and thn sephy spilled the beans shattering clouds mind ..... poor cloud

[EnlightenmentChariot]

On that day 5 years ago.. :'|

[HappleProductions]

@theeleman Was that a typo or a purposeful reference?

[serenity4130]

@Khrene if i remember right she leaves your party in town and wont talk to them

[TheZak2009]

Why does this scene look familier to me? you know, from Disc 2?

[slinq]

@Khrene she runs off and dosnt tell his parents who she is or that she dosnt know if he is alive or not but she tells that to cloud after leaving there house

[MrCheckersmcgee]

removed plot points

[jcdenton2k]

Try this on the japanese version and see what you get.

Its funny how this was translated and then left unused.

[CherryRiniaz]

It all makes sense now! They left this up in the air for the entire game. Why was this scene removed..?