Quote Originally Posted by Cubster
I believe Butz was used in the original Japanese version of FFV. They may have changed it to Bartz in the North American PSone version because we would think his name would be rather silly. Then again, we may start opening up a topic of how to pronounce his name...either "Butts" or "Buttzy"....:laughing:

It could be a translation thing also as to why in the PSone version they changed it to Bartz. The translated Emulator/ROM has it as Butz. I think I saw or read somewhere for the Japanese version that its Butz.

Try to think of it this way: In FFVI, Tina's name in the NA version is Terra by either a translation error or they edited it because in their opinion, Terra sounds better.
Wait....how did the name "Bartz"/"Butz" come about? In my game, he didnt have a default name.

As for Terra/Tina, In Japan, Tina sounds like a different exotic name (which is common in FF, I mean, what character has ACTUALLY had a NORMAL name? ) but in NA, Tina is a common girls' name. So they came up with Terra, which sounds exotic in NA. At least, that's what Wikipedia says......

As for my previous statement, I understand that in the EARLY FFs, there were normal names (Sara, Stella, Maria, Guy, Leon, etc.) but that was before FF was more storylined