30nm4949

30nm4949 is the first ever non-cheated speedrun through all of Doom II on Nightmare! difficulty. It was recorded by Thomas Pilger (Panter) on 15th October 1998, and published on Compet-n five days later.

Panter began practising in late 1997. At this time a full Doom II Nightmare! run, 30nm6520, had already been submitted to Compet-n a year earlier by Steffen Winterfeldt. However soon after its release, other speedrunners began to question the authenticity of the demo. Though Steffen has never made any public admission of this, his run is now believed to have been achieved using slowmotion.

At the time of its release, Panter's demo gained wide publicity. Compet-n site maintainer Adam Hegyi emailed John Romero about the run, prompting this response: "Thanks for the info. I grabbed the demos and I'll run them as soon as I have a little spare time - I can't wait to see a nightmare run through DOOM2, it's just gotta be impossible!"