My beautiful, talented, wonderful girlfriend solved this for me! :coollove:
In system.def scroll down to where it says [VS Screen] & ;Big portraits
Get rid of p1.anim = 0 ;Ikemen feature
and p2.anim = 0 ;Ikemen feature
Then it should use the static portraits!
You will need to adjust the offsets too, I used:
p1.offset = 70,31 ;30,168
p2.offset = 250,31 ;299,168
Hope this helps someone in the future!